1989-03-24 Comments of Star Tribune.pdf - Minnesota Judicial Branch

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tunity to negotiate with the media on certain practices
and behaviors in the corridors and courthouse generally.
Whether additional governance of media in this regard
is embodied in rules or achieved by presiding judges
at specific events, the opportunity to make progress
towards a mutually agreeable set of ground rules for
covering the courts outside the courtroom should not
be ignored.
The results of this evaluation offer some assurance
that, under the guidance of specific rules, the courts
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and the media were able to neqotiate relatively satis-
factory agreements which minimized obtrusiveness and
other potential problems posed by the presence of EMC
inside courtrooms. If courthouse and courtroom EMC
issues can be linked and if, in the negotiation process
of granting such coverage, greater restraints on or
control of obtrusiveness and other problems outside
the courtroom can be achieved, then the courts and
the media together will have made rational headway in
resolving some of the real sources of‘ occasional media
obtrusiveness and subsequent ill-feelings.
2. "Type C" Effects
A model,depicting the "universe" of potential effects
of electronic/photographic court coverage is presented
in Section I.B. (p.10 ). In placing this study in the
context of that model, it was stated that few issues
within the "Type C" Effects could be addressed. 5Pe
C Effects are those 'effects of broadcast and publication
of EMClproducts which occur after the completion of the
proceeding being covered, of both a short-term and
long-term nature.
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