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To: TigerPaw who wrote (12799)	10/3/2004 12:54:58 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

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).

To: TigerPaw who wrote (12799)	10/3/2004 1:02:50 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

<I applaud them.> (C-SPAN) well, I often cry and shout, but mostly on the enviroment they (CSPAN) have to function within. Especially during these election times (but it was worse last time) Maybe something about the cost of 2-3 cents per cable-satellite-box and the $150 we pay every year, for the constitutional right to be constitutionally informed. That is maybe one of the basic media issues EU-US, skipping the tradegy of BBC. (continuing story, as everyone knows who remembers Peyton Place) However, these "public service" channels have these copyright-agreements, although it is not totally symmetric. CSPAN did a great job to get the copyrights for the O'Neil-Kerry debates of 1971, although not for internet-streaming outside USA