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Title: | Media Access to Emergencies - Command, Control or Coordination? | Contributor(s): | Eburn, Michael E (author) | Publication Date: | 2009 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/5130 | Abstract: | This paper considers whether or not the emergency services have the legal power to restrict media access to a disaster area or to restrict how the media report the event. It is argued that as the media have a legitimate interest in reporting on disaster events, the emergency services need to facilitate their access to the disaster rather than attempt to control how the media go about their task. It is argued that the media and emergency services organisations must coordinate their response for the benefit of the emergency service organisation, the media and the public generally. The emergency services do not have the legal power to take any other approach. | Publication Type: | Conference Publication | Conference Details: | EMPA Conference 2009: Emergency Media and Public Affairs Conference 2009, Melbourne, Australia, 24th - 26th May, 2009 | Source of Publication: | Presented at the Emergency Media and Public Affairs Conference | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 180108 Constitutional Law 180199 Law not elsewhere classified |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 940401 Civil Justice 940499 Justice and the Law not elsewhere classified |
HERDC Category Description: | E2 Non-Refereed Scholarly Conference Publication | Publisher/associated links: | http://www.emergencymedia.org.au/site/conferences_2009.htm |
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