Boston Archdiocese fires photographer who caught Scalia's obscene gesture

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Church fires photog over Scalia picture: Freelancer pays for ‘right thing’
By Jessica Heslam
Friday, March 31, 2006 - Updated: 01:24 PM EST

A freelance photographer has been fired by the Archdiocese of Boston’s newspaper for releasing a picture of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia making a controversial gesture in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Sunday.

Peter Smith, who had freelanced for The Pilot newspaper for a decade, lost the job yesterday after the Herald ran his photo on its front page. Smith said he has no regrets about releasing it.
“I did the right thing. I did the ethical thing,” said Smith, 51, an assistant photojournalism professor at Boston University.
Smith snapped the photo of Scalia flicking his hand under his chin after a Herald reporter asked the conservative jurist his response to people who question his impartiality on matters of church and state.
Smith wouldn’t give up the photo earlier this week but chose to release it when he learned Scalia said his gesture had been incorrectly characterized by the Herald. Smith, who was standing in front of the judge, said the Herald “got the story right.”


http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=132932&format=&page=1

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1. Morning kick*

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[Never Forget]

7. Wrong on so many levels

I'd say that photographer has a good case on his hands.

[shance]

8. Sure looks that way doesn't it?

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[ShaneGR]

2. Non-Story

It was originally reported he flipped them the bird, that's sort of a bleh, buzz off type of gesture.

[shance]

3. Thanks Shane. I guess someone getting fired for doing the right

thing is a non-story to you. I mean it doesn't affect you, so why should you care? Right?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. My understanding is that the chin flicking is a "FU" gesture.

[shance]

6. He also said the words "Fuck You". Our esteemed Supreme Court Justice

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[Kingshakabobo]

5. What does "vaffancoulo" mean? Kiss me I'm Irish? n/t