Media largely ignored CNN's legal victory over ... [Media Matters]

Media largely ignored CNN's legal victory over ... [Media Matters]: "In response to restrictions placed on the media covering the Hurricane Katrina disaster by New Orleans emergency operations chief Terry J. Ebbert and Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, CNN successfully filed suit against the U.S. government to protect the right of the press to photograph the deceased victims of the hurricane. But aside from CNN, most major media outlets have given scant coverage to, or ignored entirely, CNN's legal victory or the subsequent reported violations of the federal court order by government personnel on the ground.

On September 9, Honoré, who leads the hurricane relief effort, reportedly declared that the media would have 'zero access' to body-recovery operations, stating that it 'would not be good to have pictures of people, the deceased, shown on any media.' Also on September 9, Ebbert stated that the process of recovering the deceased would be 'done with dignity, meaning there will be no press allowed.' Their comments followed reports from earlier in the week that the FEMA allegedly asked the media to not photograph those who died in the disaster."