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Media blackout

May 08

7:24 AM

Re 'TV station sues Suffolk over access,' Hampton Roads, May 6:

If the city doesn't want a TV station invading the privacy of its citizens after a disaster, it should have every right to deny access to the media.

People need time and space to adjust to a tragedy of this magnitude and should be able to sort through their belongings without a reporter shoving a camera in their face.

Joan Stanford

Virginia Beach

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It's about time

Submitted by GatesvilleJohn on Sat, 05/10/2008 at 11:38 am.

Thank you Suffolk for having the guts to keep the news vultures out. They would only hamper the immediate rescue effort and would serve no useful purpose.

Very true

Submitted by Watch.Dog on Sat, 05/10/2008 at 10:20 am.

The media tends to forget every part of the Constitution except the one phrase in First Amendment that pertains to them and they would forsake all others in their pursuit of it. The media needs to remember that there is a right to privacy and a right to private property in the Constitution also.