That, if it happens, comes from the viewers. But C-SPAN’s hosts don’t offer commentary or punditry. On its shows, which are interspersed with its live coverage of Capitol Hill, politicians, public figures, authors, and academics appear, sometimes with distinctive ideological perspectives or opinions. Terry Ashe/LIFE via Getty Images Jeff Conrad and Francis Herbas, field technicians for C-SPAN, oversee camera operations on Capitol Hill on June 6, 2000.
Bob Dole and Joe Biden on C-SPAN on June 1, 1986. But C-SPAN has largely stuck to those same principles. The world - and the media landscape - has changed dramatically in the four decades since then. “Let viewers make up their own minds” was the guiding idea. It was designed to be a public service, to provide “gavel-to-gavel coverage” of Congress “without editing, commentary or analysis.” The network was created in 1979, when cable television was just beginning to emerge as a new technology for media broadcasting.
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This was impeachment, according to Americans, or at least the handful of Americans watching Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network - better known as C-SPAN - on a Friday night in January.Ĭ-SPAN’s viewer call-ins are a staple of what has become a somewhat quirky institution: a cable network that broadcasts the full proceedings of Congress and other public affairs programming, like a nature cam streaming the raw footage of American politics. But before Marco could finish, his call dropped, so Yvonne from Caldwell, Idaho, jumped in to say why she thought Trump was guilty.Ī C-SPAN clip from January 6, 2020, when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer spoke on the Senate impasse over calling witnesses during President Trump’s impeachment trial. Marco from Rochester, Michigan, called in to say he felt strongly that Trump was guilty. He had it in the bag, anyhow.”Įddie from Columbus, Ohio, texted in to say Trump was not guilty. “And for me,” he added, “Trump didn’t need to worry about 2020. Rick from Willoughby, Ohio, said that “without a doubt,” Trump was “not guilty.” Then he hedged a bit: “He might be guilty enough but not enough to remove him from office or take him from the ballots.” Rick argued that all presidents want to help their reelections, and you can’t impeach them for that. He finished with a warning about the fall of Rome: “That’s exactly what’s going to happen here.”
It’s just going to be worse for our country,” Mason, a caller from Chuckey, Tennessee, said.
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The Senate had just rejected witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, and for those who had feeling about it, there was a phone number for “guilty,” another for “not guilty,” and another for “undecided.” Once the lines were posted, it didn’t take long for the calls to come in.
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