Q & A.(journalist Antoinette Konz whose recorder was confiscated by federal marshalls protecting Antonin Scalia)(Interview)

American Journalism Review,  June, 2004  

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On April 7, a federal marshal confiscated the recorders of two reporters during a speech by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at Presbyterian Christian High School in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Scalia has prohibited electronic recordings of his public appearances in the past. One of those journalists, 25-year-old Antoinette Konz, an education reporter at the Hattiesburg American, talked to AJR's Melissa Cirillo about that experience:

Q: What was going through your head when the marshal demanded that you turn over your tape recorder? Was there any inner struggle, hesitation ...

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