http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-101101message.story 

TV Officials Cautioned on Videos of Bin Laden
Security: White House urges news executives to deliberate
before airing tapes, saying they could contain secret messages to terrorists.
By JAMES GERSTENZANG,ELIZABETH JENSEN and JOSH MEYER
Times Staff Writers

October 11 2001

EXCERPS:

The White House concern is that the Islamic fundamentalist or his
organization, Al Qaeda, may have planted followers in the United States
 or elsewhere some time ago, and that his statements may be giving them
instructions to begin new operations. 

Rice called the network executives about 6 a.m. PDT. She spoke for about
30 minutes with the presidents of the news divisions at ABC, CBS and NBC
and the chairmen of CNN and Fox News. 

The TV news organizations said in similar statements that their top
executives had agreed to stop airing video from Bin Laden or other
Al Qaeda spokesmen without judging whether it was newsworthy. 

Executives, who described the conference call as cordial, said material
they televise was likely to be highly edited or paraphrased.