Tape Delay May Come to C-Span

[LiviaOlivia]

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For the first time, C-Span may air one of its regular programs with a five-second tape delay in order to waylay prank callers, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported today (Thursday). "I'm a purist on the First Amendment," C-Span Chairman Brian Lamb told the newspaper. "But it's not fair that people have to listen to young white men calling the network day after day and using four-letter words to get their jollies." He INSISTED that the daily call-in show, Washington Journal, is now receiving at least one or two prank calls each day. Lamb maintained that he is not reacting to the furor that ensued following the Janet Jackson incident in February. He said that while the channel has always boasted that it provided free unfettered access to viewers to comment on the events of the day, the prank callers "tend to feed off each other."

[Caution]

1. "young white men" ??

ummm...how the hell does he know these are young, white or even men? I normally don't make an issue of white male bashing because i think it is vastly overblown by white males who are feeling reactionary, but this is a little absurd.

And somehow i seriously doubt that people watching C-Span are going to find the word "fuck" more offensive than the bile spewing out of the mouths of people like Tom Delay.

[Goldom]

2. Who exactly owns/runs C-span?

I've never been able to figure it out... their site says something like "america's cable companies", what exactly does that mean?

[NoPasaran]

5. It's a non-profit funded by the cable companies that carry it

C-SPAN is a private, non-profit public service of the cable television industry. Even though the network’s programming covers the political process, it receives no funding from any government. C-SPAN earns its operating revenues through license fees paid by cable systems that offer the network to their customers.

The cable television industry created C-SPAN (Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network) in 1979 to provide live, gavel-to-gavel coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives. Since those early days, C-SPAN has grown into a diverse information service that provides public affairs programming 24 hours a day in a variety of formats. Today the cable industry remains the primary distributor of the C-SPAN networks and continues that distribution as a service to the public.

C-SPAN is a non-profit educational organization with a board of directors comprised of executives from large and small cable television operating companies. While the board establishes network policy and provides financial oversight, it is not involved in C-SPAN’s editorial decision-making.

http://www.cspan.org/about/company/index.asp?code=COMPANY

[oneighty]

3. How can anyone?

How can anyone believe a 'caller' into a tv/radio show is that which he or she represents themselves to be?

C-Span is nothing more than a platform for useless unverified 'facts' thrown out willy-nilly for consumption of the gullible citizens among us.

One can say "I heard it on C-Span, therefore it is true."

IMHO

180

[hang a left]

6. That is exactly how I feel.

Just another outlet for propaganda. Oh and the daily drama, bs show, that is the House of Representatives

[demnan]

4. They have been barriaged with Howard Stern fans

and that like species of moron.