{"id":13174,"date":"2024-03-22T00:03:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T00:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13174"},"modified":"2024-04-21T00:06:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T00:06:50","slug":"god-bless-c-span","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/03\/22\/god-bless-c-span\/","title":{"rendered":"God Bless C-SPAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2024\/03\/19\/the_gift_of_c-span_in_an_era_of_partisan_media_150670.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from RealClearPolitics<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Gift of C-SPAN in an Era of Partisan Media<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2024\/03\/19\/the_gift_of_c-span_in_an_era_of_partisan_media_150670.html#comments-container\"><\/a>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/authors\/carl_m_cannon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Carl M. Cannon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"C-SPAN - Powered by Cable.\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ybheeM7isE?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Forty-five years ago today, future vice president Albert Gore Jr. stood in the well of the House of Representatives to discuss an innovative development in television programming. There was nothing remarkable about that in itself: Al Gore had been a newspaperman before becoming a Tennessee congressman and had a genuine interest in both new technology and mass communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Except that there&nbsp;<em>was<\/em>&nbsp;something momentous about Gore\u2019s speech that day. It was the first time that remarks delivered on the House floor by a member of Congress were televised. It was an event long envisioned by a 38-year-old Indiana-born, Purdue-educated, U.S. Navy veteran who had worked as a White House and Capitol Hill aide before returning to journalism. His name was Brian Lamb. As the Washington bureau chief of the trade publication Cablevision, Lamb had dreamed of creating a nonprofit cable network that would focus exclusively on public affairs, particularly Congress. It was called C-SPAN, and on March 19, 1979, that dream became reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing an audience that Lamb later quipped was \u201cin the thousands,\u201d Al Gore said this: \u201cThe marriage of this medium and of our open debate have the potential, Mr. Speaker, to revitalize representative democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Precisely four and a half decades later, C-SPAN is still shining a spotlight on our nation\u2019s elected representatives and our shared national history, even as the technology changes under the network\u2019s feet (yet again.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2024\/03\/19\/the_gift_of_c-span_in_an_era_of_partisan_media_150670.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at RealClearPolitics<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from RealClearPolitics The Gift of C-SPAN in an Era of Partisan Media By\u00a0Carl M. Cannon Forty-five years ago today, future vice president Albert Gore Jr. stood in the well of the House of Representatives to discuss an innovative development in television programming. There was nothing remarkable about that in itself: Al Gore had been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}