What It Was Like At C-SPAN As Women Flooded The Network With Stories Of Sexual Abuse

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"Once we got one call, it seemed like every other caller was another victim of sexual abuse, and that’s what was really so incredible. It just seemed to be a watershed moment," said C-SPAN's @SteveScully https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-scully-cspan-brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford_us_5baea5ebe4b0c75759651a3f?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004 … via @HuffPost

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MEDIA 09/29/2018 08:00 am ET

What It Was Like At C-SPAN As Women Flooded The Network With Stories Of Sexual Abuse

Steve Scully has been at the network for decades. But as he fielded call after call on Thursday, he could tell something different was happening.

By Maxwell Strachan

A strange thing happened on Thursday: Everyone started talking about C-SPAN. During its coverage of the Brett Kavanaugh hearing, the normally stolid channel turned into something else: an impromptu national town hall on sexual assault.

As Christine Blasey Ford told the country that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in 1982, woman after woman started to call in to C-SPAN to tell senior executive producer and host Steve Scully about the men who had sexually abused them.

“Well over a dozen,” he estimated. “It was such an organic moment. It just happened. We didn’t plan it.”
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[bobbieinok]

1. Underestimating the number of calls??