Cherie Currie on TV! 7/11/05

**Tard** · July 15th, 2005, 06:17 PM

The video media for TV journalists is the same as notebooks and written documents (everything from daily schedules to confidential informants contact info) for other news outlets like Reuters & AP.

If our little truck driving school was given unpublished materials from the news channel, or the broadcaster himself, it would open a whole nasty can o' worms. Networks entire video archives could be considered open access for any & all legal proceedings. Accident report ambulance-chasing lawyers would likely shut most stations down just due to requests for archival footage before the statute-of-limitations expires!

Worst-case-scenario; nobody would be able to comment about anything anonymously. Whistle blowers identities would immediately be released, whether their wish or not.

Dissapointing for a little story with no 'news' value except to completist fans, or students wanting to see just how close they got to being a TV soundbite, but I'll cut journalists a little slack.

Don't have her name handy, but a journalist imprisoned for a story she didn't even write about Rove, and Rove is free..?