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Candace Clarke
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Snap judgment: Photog did ‘right thing’
By Jessica Heslam
Boston Herald
Published: 4/01/06

Excerpt:
The freelance photographer fired from his job at a Catholic Church newspaper for releasing a picture of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia making a controversial gesture in church has garnered support from across the country for "doing the right thing."

Peter Smith said he's received dozens of e-mails from across the country praising him for standing up to "big institutions."

... The Archdiocese of Boston's weekly newspaper, The Pilot, told Smith it would no longer use his services after he released the photograph to, in his words, "set the record straight."

...Smith captured Scalia flicking his hand under his chin after a Herald reporter asked his reponse to people who question his impartiality on matters of church and state. The conservative jurist told Smith, "You're not going to print that, are you?"

Later, Scalia said the Herald mischaracterized his gesture as obscene. ...

The Pilot said it made a "journalistic decision" not to publish or release the photograph. ...Aly Colon of the Poynter Institute in Florida said the church isn't going to see things the way a journalist would.
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