Hand-to-handheld combat

The congressional Radio/TV gallery fired back today after their print colleagues yesterday supported a politician-led effort to block the use of handheld video cameras in the halls outside the Senate chamber.

It all goes back to the ruckus that erupted last week when CNN’s Joe Johns used a mini-cam to get secondary footage in an interview with Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens. Stevens complained that he was “ambushed.” We wondered aloud then whether the fracas would ultimately undermine the broadcasters push

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