This is a flashback to an article about court reporters written in 1990. Sounds like most of it could have been written today. The more things change...
"Basically, if you want an accurate record, then there's only one way to get it, and that's with a court reporter," said Barbara Johnson, a certified shorthand reporter in West Orange. But Charles Gspann, of the Sound-Arts Company, an Ocean Township concern that installs sound systems in courtrooms, said: "There is no question about it. The right piece of recording equipment in a courtroom will far and away exceed anything that one human can do. "Tape recorders and court stenographers have been quietly coexisting, each....MORE
