Gannett, AP Sue U.S. Marshals for Erased Scalia Tapes

[cosmicone]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040510/media_nm/media_scalia_dc_7

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two media companies and two of their reporters accused the U.S. Marshals Service in a lawsuit on Monday of violating their constitutional rights by confiscating recording devices during a speech by U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) Justice Antonin Scalia (news - web sites) and erasing his remarks.

Antoinette Konz, who works with the Gannett newspaper the Hattiesburg American, and Denise Grones, who works with the Associated Press, were covering Scalia's appearance at a high school in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on April 7 for a talk on the U.S. Constitution.

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[Rebellious Republican]

1. Gannett is not a favorite with the Bushies, anyone remember

"Jeb's devious plans" comment, it was recorded and reported by a Ganntt reporter.....

October 8, 2002

These headlines about Brother Jeb's "devious plans" are apparently quoting Jeb himself. The boy apparently used the phrase amid a group of politicos he presumed to be as sleazy as himself, but didn't realize there was a reporter in the room, Alisa LaPolt of the Gannett News Service. And worse,the reporter had a tape recorder, making it hard to deny.

LaPolt had been covering Bush since the second month of his reign, but he apparently didn't recognize her among the Florida legislators he was meeting with and she recorded him saying he had a "devious plan" for killing a proposition even if the voters approve it in an upcoming referendum.

The proposal is a constitutional amendment that would limit class size. Polls are showing that it will win with an 80% majority.

But it won't matter, Jeb said, because he would see to it that the measure would die for lack of funding. That was his devious plan, well described by Jebby himself. (See The Pensacola News-Journal.

http://www.davidcogswell.com/MediaRoulette/SmarmyJeb.html