Do different laws govern press and television. A report in today's The Daily Telegraph on a Brisbane party - "Six teens stabbed in party brawl" - has a photograph of a "man charged with attempted murder". The man's face is clearly visible and recognisable (or would be if you knew him). Not so with the same report on television this morning. The man's face was totally obscured by a moving blur - as opposed to the usual jacket to cover head/face-hiding behaviour.
So are the rules different for the different types of media? And/or is it something to do with the timing? Although that doesn't really make sense the way I was thinking about it - to my mind the earlier one - before positive ID etc - would be the one with the man's face obscured - but it was the other way around.
So many questions ...
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