In some ways it's a bit more dramatic than that. Oklahoma's being sued by the ACLU and newspapers because the state restricted the press's access to what was h

In some ways it's a bit more dramatic than that. Oklahoma's being sued by the ACLU and newspapers because the state restricted the press's access to what was happening during Claton Lockett's botched execution: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/newspapers-are-suing-oklahoma-for-hiding-a-botched-execution http://motherboard.vice.com/read/newspapers-are-suing-oklaho... People sometimes forget that while the press is often accused of being lurid and prurient, they do actually serve a civic function. (Or really, the Press is an overly broad category, and there are good investigative journalists whom people throw under the bus because CNN is terrible)