Thereafter, a virtual gag is imposed on the press until the case comes to trial.
It was the day after the Government imposed on the press, domestic and foreign, an extraordinarily harsh censorship system.
In many of the less-developed countries with authoritarian governments, very extensive controls are imposed on the press, and government-owned newspapers are often the principal sources of political news.
One reason factual coverage declined as the story moved overseas and became more complex is the restrictions -- the most stringent in history -- that the Pentagon has imposed on the press.
"A majority of the Supreme Court not only left open the possibility of prior restraints in other cases but of criminal sanctions being imposed on the press following publication of the Pentagon Papers themselves," Floyd Abrams, who also represented The Times in the case, wrote in a new book, "Friend of the Court".
As the New York Times notes, "Again, we have no way of knowing when or where the video was shot, or if this reader's account is accurate, due to the intense restrictions on first-hand reporting imposed on the press inside Iran".
Via interviews with historians and government officials, "The Last Atomic Bomb" touches on the United States' reasons for using the bomb, the restrictions imposed on the American press concerning information about its aftereffects and the Japanese discrimination against "mushroom cloud victims".
The ruling comes on the same day that the Daily Mail editor-in-chief, Paul Dacre, claimed that a privacy law was being "imposed" on the British press by the rulings of high court judge Mr Justice Eady.
The Obama administration also cleared the way for the delivery of Apache attack helicopters to Egypt, citing the need to help fight terrorism – even as new restrictions were imposed on the Egyptian press.
While the BBC have absolutely no excuse for what was, at best, a total lapse in journalistic ethics and principles, Lord McAlpine's identity may not have been exposed in the public domain in the past due to the discipline imposed on the mainstream press media by our libel laws.
