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the debate.
ye covered
But I'm also pretty sure the good
hundreds of
justice didn't get to that Hattiesburg
speeches for
high school in a horse-drawn car-
the Jewish
riage.
News over the
Scalia does not allow his speeches
years, usually with
to
be recorded. To him, the First
a camera in one
Amendment
guarantees his freedom
hand and a tape
to speak --- but I guess there's a
recorder in the
price to pay to listen.
HARRY
other. I'm easy to
The war in Iraq is heating up
KIRSBAUM spot in a crowd.
again;
the 9-11 commission is taking
Columnist - The tape recorder
testimony,
and Janet Jackson
provides me with
appeared
on
Saturday Night Live last
the means to get an
week.
accurate quote when I'm photo-
The busy week put the Scalia
graphing the speaker.
story on the back page, but I see this
It also allows me to take a little
story as a more ominous sign.
mental nap when the speaker
Janet Jackson's Super Bowl
becomes a bit long-winded.
wardrobe
malfunction on television
I've never covered a story without
somehow
causes
shock-jock Howard
a recorder unless it was a private
Stern
to
get
pulled
off the air on
event or meeting I was invited to
some radio stations.
attend, and the issue was
The Nick and Jessica
discussed in advance.
Variety
Hour debut last week
I've snapped shots and
brought
back painful mem-
recorded voices during a stu-
ories
of
the
Sonny and Cher
dent-led anti-Israel protest
COmedy
Hour.
at the State Capitol in
I wonder what's going on.
Lansing and under the glare
My attorney calls these
of the personal security
events part of a cultural
detail in charge of Louis
Justice Scalia
pendulum swing that's been
Farrakhan, who was speaking
going on for decades.
at a Detroit City Council session.
The
restrictive 1950s swung into
I've never been directly chal-
the
freewheeling
1960s and 1970s,
lenged, though.
which
swung
into
the Reagan-Bush
So it hit a bit close to home when
big-business, savings-and-loan
I read last week that two journalists
1980s, which swung into the
were forced to erase their tapes dur-
Clinton-Lewinsky trash-television
ing a speech at a Mississippi high
1990s, which swung into the current
school.
Bush-Cheney
dogmatic world view.
The reporters from the Associated
The
current
administration's "with
Press and the Hattiesburg American
us
or
against
us"
mentality doesn't
initially refused, but eventually com-
refer only to terrorists. It refers to
plied with the demand.
everything, and it affects our entire
What's most disturbing is who,
culture.
and what, was involved.
I used to halt political or religious
• A U.S. marshal approached the
conversations
when I was behind the
reporters and made the demand..
bar
in
Chicago.
They were lousy for
• She was speaking on behalf of
tips,
and
the
police
didn't like break-
Supreme Court Justice Antonin
ing up the fights.
Scalia.
Now I don't even like to engage
• He was speaking about the U.S.
sober people in those conversations.
Constitution, referring to it as "a
I'm sure my attorney is right —
brilliant piece of work."
she
always is.
Scalia's a real piece of work, too.
The
pendulum will swing back
I'm pretty sure that when the
again.
Founding Fathers wrote the First
I just hope it stays a bit longer in
Amendment, they didn't figure mov-
the
middle this time. ❑
ing pictures or tape recorders into