Let us sing the praises of C-Span

[jducoeur]

I'm going to have to remember that, for events that they cover, they're sometimes a really fine choice. I watched the Inauguration there (I still have it on now -- they were just showing the speeches at the luncheon), and their "just the facts" approach is delightful. Where all the other TV networks are vying with each other to provide ever more talking heads giving opinions, C-Span covered the whole thing the way they do Congress: with lots of cameras and nary a commentator.

Really: I understand that the networks try to use the commentators to distinguish them from each other. But this allows C-Span a fine niche, distinguishing itself mainly by not playing that game. And for me, that's a big win...

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[editrx.livejournal.com]

I had slept late and so had to watch everything later on repeat, and immediately went to C-SPAN because I knew they would be showing the parade without the damn talking heads (scanned past them on the way to C=SPAN, and yeah, yakking away they were...), and then they did indeed show the earlier broadcast with just the camera and nothing more. Hurray! (And hurray to be able to hear the Williams piece without talking heads -- Elric hadn't been able to hear the music earlier, apparently, and was happy I'd gone to C-SPAN when I came and took over the TV control).