The Media Interview

Angelina Jolie is being called a hypocrite by some media (for instance, here, here, and here) after she imposed strict limits on interviews during the June 13th premiere of A Mighty Heart, in which she plays the widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Roger Friedman of Fox News blasted Jolie for [...]

All recently released WWE wrestlers have been told that they are not allowed to do media interviews until their non-compete clauses expire.
- on Wrestling Confidential, February 8, 2007

Finally had a chance to read through the lawsuit filed October 25th 2006 by Jane Pauley against the New York Times and DeWitt Publishing - thanks to The Smoking Gun for posting a copy of it online. I had read reports in the papers, but it’s nice to comment on something when you [...]

Wired News pulls the plug on stories which used faked interviews. Interesting to see how these fakes were caught using policies implemented following earlier fakery:
In a phone conversation with Wired News editors, [journalist Philip] Chien had identified Ash as a professor of aeronautical engineering at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Reached by phone [...]

Before leaving for holidays I was going to write a story about FEMA preventing journalists from interviewing residents of FEMA trailer parks built in the wake of Hurrican Katrina. On returning I found this encouraging item in The Advocate [Baton Rouge], July 26, 2006:
FEMA announced Tuesday that it reversed a policy restricting media access [...]