Summary
Dalglish comments on Justice Antonin Scalia's act of making headlines when a US Marshall in Hattiesurg MO confronted two print reporters midway through the justice's speech on the majesty of the US Constitution. She says that Scalia has a long colorful history of banning electronic coverage of his speeches; however, he apologized for depriving the reporters to do the recording for print media when the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press fired a letter to the Justice Department. Here, she presents some of the suggestions on how a reporter ought to behave when law enforcement officials confront them and grab their reporting materials.
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Understanding Justice Scalia
It's not every day that a heavy, cream-colored, embossed letter of apology from a U.S. Supreme Court justice lands on your desk. Leave it to justice Antonin Scalia to write a charming letter that unfortunately is hostile to the broadcast media...
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