The Supreme Court has never allowed the broadcast news media to bring the tools of their trade-cameras and microphones-into its courtroom for coverage of its proceedings. Unlike almost every other public institution in the United States, it has been able to maintain such a ban to this day, ignoring the successive winds of change brought by radio, television and the Internet.
That defiant stance is born of fear of change, nostalgia, a self-interested desire for anonymity, but most of all exceptionalism: the court’s view of itself as a unique institution that can and should resist the demands of the information age.
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