Will Saletan of Slate points out that Justice Scalia’s policy — to “permit recording for use of the print media,” but to ask the “electronic media” to “respect[ his] First Amendment right not to speak on radio or television when [he does] not wish to do so” — seems to prohibit recording for transcription onto Internet-based magazines and blogs, which are “electronic” rather than “print.”
I suspect that Scalia is trying to draw a distinction between text uses and audio or video uses, and is using “print” and “electronic” without really thinking about Internet media. But it’s not clear, and, if I’m right, it’s a reminder that people’s terminology hasn’t fully caught up with the new media.
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