C-SPAN is something USA should brag about every day of any year.
Well, except if one remembers how C-SPAN made it possible for Newt to abuse C-SPAN, as well as how C-SPAN changed the speaking habits of both the US house, senate and committees, plus presidential candidates.
That is, EU (and us) have thought and debated this issue, idea and system for the same decades, and one can still debate it.
EU and us have not come to the same conclusion as US and C-SPAN (Cable and Satellite industry, Public Affairs Network)
Ilmarinen
PS C-SPAN, according to the myth, got started by Nixon, his problems with the "networks". On the other hand, he is said to have never even dreamed of all the think-tanks that now are handling the air-waves.
PPS Try searching for "fourth estate" as soon as CSPAN gets their servers running again (after the election??)
PPPS Some common sense might be something about "dysfunctional media"?? (C-SPAN tries to cover that too, maybe even including themselves). |
