Law enforcement agencies ordered news helicopters to keep their distance for the protection of the officers involved.
The court has ordered news media covering the trial not to reveal the identities of the brokers and their employers.
Senior Chinese officials eventually ordered news organizations to stop reporting on the scandal, fearing that the news highlighted endemic corruption within various levels of the government.
Meanwhile, Chinese authorities have restricted access to the village and have apparently ordered news organizations to sharply limit their coverage of the incident.
Their criticisms come as Sony's law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner has ordered news organisations to "destroy the stolen information", and cease publication of any portion of it.
They also ordered news outlets to use only the official, terse accounts of the killings provided by the Xinhua news agency, and have kept the news off broadcast television almost entirely.
China Digital Times, a Web site based in Berkeley, Calif., that tracks the Chinese news media, said that propaganda officials at the State Council, China's cabinet, had ordered news organizations not to report on the appearance of the photograph.
The Sinclair stations will instead broadcast their own special, which Mr. Hyman called "a full debate" about the "Nightline" special.. Sinclair, which owns 62 television stations in 39 markets, also made news in September 2001, when it ordered news personnel at its Baltimore station to read patriotic statements supporting President Bush.
A different approach is proposed by Tatar et al. who study the performance of three popularity prediction methods (simple linear regression, linear-log, and constant scaling) to order news articles based on their future number of comments [50].
'We are mere tech platform' was the refrain in September 2016, despite how its algorithms select and order news-related content for billions of users.
