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Frankly, I thought this AP story called "Scalia Criticizes News Media" was too dull to write about.

By Ann Althouse

And when I noticed it again today while reading How Appealing, I was tempted to write a post about the existential angst of Howard Bashman ? that poor man, writing a blog that flags each legal thing that makes the news, forced by his own chosen vision of the blog to post whenever the media-hungry justice lumbers out into the world and the Associated Press takes note. But I found the AP article just interesting enough to make me want to do this block and indent quote:

At a conference of [lawyers from the Food and Drug Law Institutea], Scalia said news organizations often fail to focus on the text of the laws the court interprets, citing accounts of last month's 8-1 decision that made it harder for consumers to sue makers of federally approved medical devices.

He singled out for criticism a New York Times editorial on the case headlined "No Recourse for the Injured."

Full post as published by Althouse on March 28, 2008 (boomark / email).