does scalia get it?
this bothered me so much, i wrote about it, twice.
it also bothered some other people, showing up in an op-ed in the sf chronicle, oddly enough, titled not in this country. not quite “not my america” but close enough for editorial work :). slate also took a crack at it, and well… the news today (actually late yesterday) is odd…
Scalia Apologizes for Erasure Of Reporters’ Tapes of Speech, washington post [ registration may be required ]In an April 9 letter to Lucy A. Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, which had protested the incident, Scalia said he had written to the two reporters, Antoinette Konz of the Hattiesburg American and Denise Grones of the Associated Press, “extending my apology and undertaking to revise my policy so as to permit recording for use of the print media.”
Scalia called Dalglish’s concern “well justified” and said he had been “as upset as you were” to learn of the deputy marshal’s action, which, he said, “was not taken at my direction.”
i think i first got wind of this at the san jose mercury news, High court Justice Scalia apologizes to reporters for destruction of tapes.
going to the source…
the press release from The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the scalia letter [pdf] from their site.