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It is not so much as freedom of the press as much as the press has freedom from responsibility and propriety. None of us would be any less informed if NBC had turned that information over to the police and the network could then provide a summary to the public of what was in the package. There is no need, as StrikeKing points out, to have the families and friends of the victims assualted a second time by having this loser's image shown non-stop on every channel.
One of my law professors used to say "The fact that you have the right to do something does not always mean its right to do it."
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