No flak, just respectful disagreement.
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When the papers reported that Judge Perry had been seen in West Palm Beach, at least 2 (I think) new stations rushed on out and did some 'people in the street' interviews. I think this is what Judge Perry want to avoid. If I had gotten a jury summons in Palm Beach County within the last 30 days and I saw my local TV news do a person in the street interview about this case, if I hadn't thought about it in awhile, the first thing I would do is look it up on the internet and see what all the fuss is about. And by doing that, I will knock myself out of the running as a potential juror. His Honor does not care about what the media says and does once the potential jurors are at the courthouse that first day of choosing a jury. I agree with this method of doing it. No one is stopping the media from attending the jury selection process. they just won't get there for about an hour and a half. Jury selection is going to take a good while, probably longer than a week. Media will have plenty of time to do their interviews in front of the courthouse where it is going on, etc. No one is stopping them from that.
Good analogy: National media do not predict who is going to win a presidential election (and they all have a gazillion people working on that prediction) until ALL the polling places have closed. They do this so people will not feel they shouldn't bother to vote because so and so already won. I don't see anyone screaming that their first amendment rights are being abused when that happens. Why? Because they are censoring themselves. In this case someone else is doing the 'censoring' and they don't like it.