Posted on 05/08/2013 4:17:55 AM PDT by mazda77
I just sent the following to viewer@c-apan.org
With all due respect, does your organization, paid for by our tax dollars, honestly think the South Korean Presidents speech is more important than the Benghazi hearings? HONESTLY!?
Put her on 3 and elevate the hearings to either C-Span or C-Span2 where most people are able to see it on their televisions. Of utmost concern, is your access to the bandwidth necessary to eliminate cutouts and drop-offs. DirecTV only has 1 and 2 on their lineup and from what I am told is the case for most other cable providers, without having to buy additional premium services.
Put the hearings where the most people can watch them, easily!
Thank You and Bookmark
Lemme see. 8:30 local time. C-SPAN 3, Rush and the FR live thread, simultaneously. I better make some extra coffee and get the dogs walked early.
I too remember. The three networks went wall to wall on Watergate. Deserting our Ambassador and three others to die by a President, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense is less because the lame-stream drive bys want protection for their murderers. Nobody died at the Watergate therefore it deserved wall to wall coverage by all three networks but ordering Stand Down to allow our Ambassador and three other Heroes to die deserves no coverage like Watergate received. I live in a nation I no longer recognize, and it pains my soul to see such blatant bias by the news organizations.
The American public has a limited ability to pay attention to events. They can follow one thing at a time. Kim Kardashian’s a$$ or some basketball player’s sex preferences.
The only thing that gets them out of their stupor is when all the media play in unison, putting something 24/7 on crawlers, and “stay tuned for the latest in...” and on front pages of all the papers.
Informed people like FR readers follow the events and keep up with them.
I sent an email to CSpan, though not so sure it will do any good changing minds.
Also, for folks who won’t be near a TV, it’s on CSpan radio live. And if you have a smart phone and the TuneIn app, you can listen live.
Agreed, but when something starts to happen and one person tells two people, . . . . they need to be able to access it to verify it. It is about access, not only to those immediately interested but also to those who might not normally be.
Thanks for the link
Too right...
When I lived in No.VA, I got to know one of the CSPAN dudes through a family connection.
Complete lib in a completely lib organization.
Like PBS, they don’t have to compete because they are supported by our hard-earned tax dollars...
Cut it off and starve the beast.....
Cox Cable did have CSPAN 1 and 2 on their ‘regular’ tier for a while. Then, they re-did their line up and moved CSPAN 2 and CSPAN 3 on an upper tier.
Of course, CSPAN 1-2-3 are offered online. However, many times, the streams are glitchy and won’t stay connected.
Possibly, some of the newsie-websites may be streaming the hearings.
Please explain how taxpayers fund C-SPAN.
I’ve always thought Brian Lamp was completely non partisan. Straight shooter, no favorites.
Oops...sorry...I meant the cable system...
But the point is still the same...
They are not a commercial entity so do not have to be a commercial success to survive...
Don’t confuse them with the facts.
I know public radio and television lie about taxpayer funding and use intermediaries and subterfuge. I was wondering if C-SPAN was using the same methods.
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Iran-Contra with Ollie North and Fawn Hall dominated the airwaves as well. I remember Ollie having to explain to committee counsel John Nields the difference between "covert" and "overt" and making the chief counsel look absolutely foolish.
If we had a Majority Leader with any stones he’d threaten to cut off their House access unless they bumped this to the top channel. If.
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