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Originally Posted by HarryT
There was a similar case here in the UK last year, where a court blocked the transmission of an "investigative reporting" type documentation about a series of gangland murders in Glasgow, because one of the men whose activities were "exposed" in the TV programme was about to go on trial, and the court ruled that there was a justfyable concern that the jury could be influenced by seeing the TV show.
This kind of thing seems reasonable to me; in cases where someone is about to go on trial, there strict rules governing newspaper reporting of the case, too.
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I can understand that kind of ruling and there have been a number of such rulings here which I would not dispute. In fact there was an issue I was involved with only last week where the department I work for suppressed media coverage of an incident. However this series is a drama series based loosely on the events. I am not convinced of the basis for banning the series. Having said that, this is not a series I would choose to view. It does raise issues however. Then again, I guess the whole issue of suppressing information and it's morality depends on which point of view you are kooking thorough. The media would have considered the matter I was dealing with to be of public interest, yet form our point of view there were issues of privacy for those involved.
Karen