We were off to the mountains this weekend. I caught about 20 minutes of the 'Reparations Rally' on CSPAN. I was amazed the efforts they went to, to avoid showing the entire meager crowd. They deserve to go, but won't since they are privately funded and could care less about ratings.
C-SPAN is bought and paid for by the major cable companies. That means Time Warner has a huge influence on what is on C-SPAN. It is the left who pays for C-SPAN. Anyone who belives that Bryan Lamb calls the shots on C-SPAN has to believe that he who pays the piper does not call the tune. Brian is just the piper. He plays whatever tune his bosses tell him to play.
On most of its programming C-SPAN plays the Liberal tune that that its owners demand. It was interesting to hear Ann Coulter tell Brian Lamb that most of his viewers were conservative. She reminded him that to satisfy the need to be "FAIR" he had to fix the way the call ins worked with Democratic, Republican and Independant "lines". Brian did not dispute Ann's contention.
When people complained about the three phone line policy as it went into effect, Brian Lamb responded that he did not have to react to public or viewer displeasure. He said he responed to a higher power. That is true. What Brian did not say is that the HIGHER POWER is the liberal cable industry. It pays Brian the Piper, and calls the tunes he plays on C-SPAN. Brian does what ever his bosses say for him to do... including not showing how small the crowd at a liberal event is.