GOODY TWO SHOES: It’s Not News If It Happens To A Journalist
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Sounds like a juicy story, right? Burns must think so, because she is doing everything she can think of to keep the press at bay: Imposing a news blackout at her TV station; petitioning a Cook County judge to seal the case; and filing court documents requesting that “all attorneys, experts and court personnel involved” sign an agreement prohibiting them from talking about the case or selling photos of the home’s interior” for five years after the matter is adjudicated, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Otherwise, Burns and her husband “will suffer unreasonable annoyance and embarrassment” and will be deprived of “the privacy and peace of the home to which every human being is entitled.”
No journalist – especially one chasing a major scoop on deadline – believes any human being is entitled to privacy. When the MSM decides that “the public has the right to know,” all other rights – and all others’ rights - are trumped by the First Amendment.
The Stiletto would like to know whether this newly-acquired sensitivity to privacy concerns evinced by Burns - the city's highest-paid news anchor – will affect news coverage across the board at WBBM.
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