Damn Obama! Damn his secrecy! Damn his lies!
Health Care Summit Won’t Be Seen Live on Most C-SPAN Channels
Despite pleas for greater access to coverage of health care reform debate, viewers may not be able to watch live coverage of Thursday’s White House health care summit on C-SPAN — or even C-SPAN 2.
You won’t see it on C-SPAN. More than a year after candidate Barack Obama promised that the entire health care debate would be broadcast live on the channel, and after months of Republican complaints that Democrats were negotiating behind closed doors, Thursday’s health care summit will not be broadcast on C-SPAN.
Obama’s top-level bipartisan summit won’t even be seen on C-SPAN 2.
Heed our pleas, dammit! Gracious, we can’t even watch it on C-SPAN? Not even on C-SPAN 2? Good Lord, will we need to decrypt some Russian-language PPV channel to watch this thing?!?!? Whatevah shall we do? Wherevah shall we go?
Oops, read on.
Television audiences who rely on C-SPAN and C-SPAN 2 for uninterrupted coverage of public affairs events will have to tune to C-SPAN 3 or other cable outlets, including Fox News, to watch the event.
FoxNews.com will stream live coverage of the White House summit in its entirety.
I did not add the bolding, or the italics. That was all them.
Television audiences who rely on C-SPAN and C-SPAN 2 for uninterrupted coverage of public affairs events will have to tune to C-SPAN 3 or other cable outlets, including Fox News, to watch the event. Also, if it’s sunny outside, thirsty people who rely on standing outside in the rain with their mouths open are screwed.
February 25, 2010 at 3:02 am
So what’s made up? You should have read further
C-SPAN may have to bail out because it is committed to its long-standing tradition of airing live floor proceedings in the House of Representatives, and C-SPAN 2 does the same with the Senate. Even when bills, amendments or votes are not scheduled, the two channels will always air procedural business, such as special orders and morning business.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/24/cspan-demands-access-skip-live-coverage-white-house-summit/
Even C-span says it’ll be on C-span3
http://www.c-span.org/Topics/Health-Care-Insurance-Reform-Legislation-Town-Hall.aspx
The “issue” is that C-span3 is not a standard programing and not picked up by Dish nor Direct tv
THUS FOX will carry all 6 hours of the summit.
February 25, 2010 at 4:02 am
What’s made up is the idea that there is a news story here. We start off with: “Despite pleas for greater access to coverage of health care reform debate, viewers may not be able to watch live coverage of Thursday’s White House health care summit on C-SPAN — or even C-SPAN 2,” only to find out that it’s not only available on C-SPAN 3, it’s also available everywhere else. Basically, the whole thing is weird and dishonest.
Next on FOX: Despite your pleas for nourishment, you will not be given bread or water! Only steak, fresh fruit, and a selection of fine wines.”