From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

Recognize the music?

Of course you do.

Who among us doesn't hear this iconic tune and think immediately of the honor, prestige, and dignity

for which it stands. Actually, I have no idea what that is. What is it? Well, I was looking for some

music inspired by the Supreme Court, you know, Scotus. But there isn't any, so I use the Australian

National Anthem.

That makes sense.

The new term of the Supreme Court started as it does every year on the first Monday of October.

At a time when our president appears on podcasts and legislators' live tweet,

the nine justices of the Supreme Court operate in intentional obscurity.

Obscurity that confounds the media with their yawning 24-hour news hole and endless airings of congressional food fights.

How do you dramatize the work of nine somber people who reach their complex decisions in private

after lengthy rumination. Well, by snatching up their rulings in the ritual known as the

running of the interns. We have the decision coming. It's coming. Jason! Jason!

Is it a large one here?

Here, here, here, here.

Here you go.

Okay.

So we've got it.

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