Essay Archive - C-SPAN, the Cable TV channel
C-SPAN, the Cable TV channel
C-SPAN, the Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network is a medium that
truly brings the government to the people. By presenting live and uncut footage
of our government in action, the citizens of the United States can get a bit
closer to what the founding fathers had in mind when they created our government.
C-SPAN is truly a unique channel amongst the mass of today's viewing options.
C-SPAN was launched March 19, 1979, "to provide live, gavel to gavel coverage of
the United States House of Representatives."1, but the enterprise has been
expanded beyond the original on....
|