The press generally applauded this month when the Senate Judiciary
Committee voted to require the U. S. Supreme Court to televise
proceedings. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., was one of the big
proponents.
As a card-carrying member of the press, I have reservations.
The New York Times showed admirable restraint in reporting Mitt Romney's inartful and possibly revealing comment about the poor, on page 17 of Thursday's paper.
But by the time a reader had finished with the front section, that restraint had been buried in editorial overkill. The lead editorial focused on the comment - Romney said
Over the past week, Silicon Valley's internet powerhouses out-communicated Hollywood, stopped internet piracy bills pushed by the big studios and even prodded the Republican presidential candidates and President Barack Obama to agree on something -- that Hollywood's internet piracy bills threatened the innovation of the web.
Traditionally, Silicon Valley has been reluctant to play by Washington's
Established opera companies and symphonies should not be hurt seriously by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last week upholding a law that moved the work of composers such as Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitry Shostakovich from the public domain to copyright protection.
Timothy O'Leary, general director of Opera Theatre of St. Louis, said in an interview, "It
Occupy Wall Street protesters have a First Amendment right to protest in a public park, but they don't have the right to camp overnight or to physically block police officers trying to remove their tents. If officers try to forcibly remove protesters, the police may use reasonable, but not excessive force.
That is the consensus of
