Prior restraint

While I sympathize with the firefighters' families, as I did with the Murphys when their daughters became bitterly famous by dying young, blonde, and pretty, this was by definition prior restraint.

A judge who can't keep the clauses of the First Amendment straight is probably out of her depth ruling in a case such as this. This was a press freedom case, not a free speech case.

In any case, WHDH lost its scoop to media outlets with more backbone, such as the Boston Globe. It would be helpful to know who was spreading the information, as it's obvious that was the intent.

I have to ask: Would any newspaper in 2007 have the courage to publish the Pentagon papers about Iraq in the face of Bushist legal challenges? (And my guess is that Raw Story doesn't have enough lawyers, but that's just a guess.)