Scalia bans broadcasters from free-speech event

The ban on broadcast media, "begs disbelief and seems to be in conflict with the award itself," C-SPAN vice president and executive producer Terry Murphy wrote in a letter last week to the City Club. "How free is speech if there are limits to its distribution?"

Well, I'd say that free speech isn't really being defiled here: however, its first amendment sibling, freedom of the press, certainly is being flipped off. I guess this is one of those rights that can be curtailed during war...

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