knock knock, it's the first amendment...

per andrew, check this out. the bush administration had put a ban on media coverage of the recovery of dead bodies in new orleans. so, CNN sued for injunctive relief. and good thing, too.

from the article:

U.S. District Court Judge Keith Ellison issued a temporary restraining order Friday against a "zero access" policy announced earlier in the day by Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, who is overseeing the federal relief effort in the city, and Terry Ebbert, the city's homeland security director.

In explaining the ban, Ebbert said, "we don't think that's proper" to let members of the media view the bodies.

um, is the government in a place to decide what is "proper" for what gets shown to the public through the media. sweet christ! even the supreme court (in miller v. california) said that obscenity is to be defined by community standards.