Is the Information Newsworthy or a Violation of One’s Privacy Rights?

A journalist or television crew cannot disclose even true facts about someone who is a private citizen without violating that person’s “right to privacy.” Facts that are personal, private, and not newsworthy or of public concern are not permitted by law to be published or otherwise filmed for disclosure on television.

A television crew can not intrude onto someone’s property to film without their permission and cannot even stand on public property while using a telephoto lense or special microphone to gain pictures of someone or something without being allowed to do so by the person involved. Otherwise, the cameraman or journalist involved would be guilty of “intrusion.”