That is so true! C-Span is essentially the only objective reporting when it comes to news. Virtually every other news outlet has an agenda, and instead of news reporting it is usually commentary.
And all the news channels spin ....even O'Reilly spins (and as much as i enjoy his show I have to say i cannot think of any other show that spins more than O'Reilly! I have actually seen O'Reilly change spots in that one week he was attacking a topic he had been supporting the week before ....just because the guy on the channel had taken the side and he was forced to take the opposite side to make the show 'interesting.' However i understand why ...ratings .....and i do enjoy the show so i never complain. But i always chuckle whenever he says with a straight face that 'you are now entering a no spin zone.' That causes automatic chuckling that lasts for at least a couple of seconds).
However all news channels spin, and all have an agenda. The only one that does not (or at least comes the closest to not spinning) is C-Span which just delivers news and let the viewer decide for himself/herself. Other channels deliver news, issue a commentary, and implicitly tell a viewer what to think (and i mean all channels). The drawback is C-Span is not as 'interesting' as the others marques, but if you want complete and total coverage that does not include someone giving a commentary as if your higher brain functions were atrophied then C-Span is the way to go. The other news channels are basically for when i want some 'informative entertainment' (plus a chuckle every now and then ...or laughter! And while i enjoy O'reilly and the chuckling he causes is not derisive there is a certain Fox commentator who makes me outrightly LAUGH and laugh derisively! He is Gueraldo Riveira and since the Afghanistan Faux pas he made i do not even consider him a journalist! When he was in a 'battle' that was miles away he was either lying, inept or delusional ....and neither is an attribute of a good journalist. I also consider him the only achilles heel in Fox, and without that interloper Fox would even be better than it is right now).
C-Span sends its bills to the big Cable TV companies. Can you say AOL/Time Warner, Cox, and Adelphia? YES CNN, TIME Magazine, and the Atlanta Constituion pick up the big tab for C-SPAN. There is no free lunch. The big cable companies pay for C-SPAN. Brian Lamb presents his budget every year, and it they don't like what he has done they make him change or the big Cable Boys won't write the check.
These cable companies use money you pay the cable company to fund leftist political coverage that is only a little less obvious what the main channels do. They think it will fool people and it does. Since the uneducated don't watch C-Span they have to make it so it can fool brighter people. Where did you think C-Span got its money? It does not do fund raisers. It would have to answer to its veiwers if it did that. So it answers to rich Cable companies. And they call the shots.
When they had the odds equal on who could call in to C-Span (lots of lines and first come first served) they got lots of calls from the right. That reflected the makeup of the viewership. C-SPAN is so unbaised they had to structure the call-ins so they don't relfect the people who are watching. The left line, right line, and center line crap. That is a typical Democrat definition of fair. When the left is losing the vote they always want to give each side an equal number of votes. They know the Left will cheat by calling in on the Right line...and the Right will not cheat by calling in on the Left line. C-Span was well aware this would happen. Why do you think they did it?
The leftist most members of the big media conglomerates pick up the tab for C-Span. C-Span will do little that might help the right at all. They will do all they can to help the left.
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...there's a good deal more to this than meets the eye.