Another Fingergate Update: The Ocular Proof
Thursday, March 30th, 2006
The Boston Herald has the goods: a front-page photo of our gesturing justice, Antonin Scalia:
The picture was taken by freelance photographer (and photojournalism professor) Peter A. Smith, who also spoke with the Herald about the incident:
“It’s inaccurate and deceptive of [Scalia] to say there was no vulgarity in the moment,” said [Smith]. Despite Scalia’s insistence that the Sicilian gesture was not offensive and had been incorrectly characterized by the Herald as obscene, the photographer said the newspaper “got the story right.”
Smith said the jurist “immediately knew he’d made a mistake, and said, ‘You’re not going to print that, are you?’”
Additional details, after the jump.
The Boston Herald has the goods: a front-page photo of our gesturing justice, Antonin Scalia:
The picture was taken by freelance photographer (and photojournalism professor) Peter A. Smith, who also spoke with the Herald about the incident:
“It’s inaccurate and deceptive of [Scalia] to say there was no vulgarity in the moment,” said [Smith]. Despite Scalia’s insistence that the Sicilian gesture was not offensive and had been incorrectly characterized by the Herald as obscene, the photographer said the newspaper “got the story right.”
Smith said the jurist “immediately knew he’d made a mistake, and said, ‘You’re not going to print that, are you?’”
Additional details, after the jump.
