so kqed determined to su for access to the jail. the federal judge in san francisco oliver carter granted an order that allowed kqed and the responsible members of the press to go to the jail with cameras and recording equipment to interview prisoners and report the news and to my surprise sounded like a fairly reasonable thing. the sheriff could shut it down if there were security problems. to my surprise the sheriff appealed to the federal court of appeals which heard the case on an expedited basis and agreed unanimously that kqed had a right to access to this facility. they couldn't agree among the three judges on what the first amendment principle was that allowed the press access to the jail and they wandered all over the lot. the sheriff took advantage of that and went to the united states supreme court. they took the case and her argument. you might consider this share of the first amendment villain, someone who suppresses information about government operations with no justification at all. the argument in the supreme court

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and by the: captioned at the kqed captioning center. >> charlie: welcome to our today a legend returns, a rebroadcast of a conversation with arnold palmer if you were playing today, would you be number one? >> i can't answer that. >> charlie: but you had the will to win, the clubs are different, you'd be stronger. you'd like to give it a shot wouldn't you. >> you're damn right. [laughter] >> i'd like to give it a go. >> charlie: arnold palmer for the hour, next. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> charlie: arnold palmer is with us for this hour. he is a legend who came out of the hills of pennsylvania with his father's hard driving lessons deep in his soul. he had the strength of a line backer and the magnetism of a movie star. all of that you could hit a small ball and win a masters. two british opens and 62pga tour events, but never, never the pga, although he came close coming in second three times. he was once chosen athlete of the decade, not just in his sport, in all sports. golf has never been the same. it is bi

the center for investigative reporting and kqed, san francisco have been looking into that issue forear and jointly produced this story for the "newshour." their reporter is michael montgomery. >> reporter: marijuana is a cash crop in california. last year, local and federal authorities seized some seven million illegally grown plants much of it cultivated on national forests and parks like yosemite. police say the growers are no longer just local hippies. increasingly, they are armed traffickers ready to confront whoever comes their way. mendocino county sheriff tom allman says that's why his deputies are training in new tactics to capture more growers and disrupt their trade networks. >> we're at a fork in the road, if we don't make an aggressive push now to take back public lands, we may be at a point of no return. >> reporter: more and more, that battle to take back the land turns violent. >> this was found in a garden. >> reporter: last year, mendocino county saw an unprecedented number of armed confrontations, many with mexican nationals with suspected links to drug gangs acros

captioned at the kqed captioning center. . >> rose: welcome to our program. this evening writerss talk about writing. we begin with salman rushdie. >> initially a thought i want to write about that period. and i thought if i am going to tell that truthfully i have to make all those people real including myself and that means telling the whole story. because i think to the reader, the interest is always the same. you have to see characters on the page that are vivid and that you're interested in and you want to know what happens to them and you care about what happens to them. so in a sense it's novelistic. i have to write it in the same way i would write a novel. i have to make people come alive on the page and make them people that you would care about. and that so happens-- with me. >> and we begun with stanley fish and roger rosenblatt. >> writing has four purposes, at least to my mind. to make suffering endureable, to make evil intelligible, to make justice desirable, and love-- and so when he talks about what words can do to reality, i think there's no m