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John Boehner Denies C-SPAN Request for Increased Coverage of House
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyNew House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has denied a request by C-SPAN for permission to cover more of the debate on the House floor. The public affairs network had sent Boehner a letter in November asking him to allow its cameras the freedom to capture wide shots of the chamber and also to catch lawmakers' reactions while their colleagues are holding forth. Currently C-SPAN is limited to static shots that are controlled by Congress. Boehner responded via letter late Thursday, informing C-SPAN officials that their request would not be accommodated. "I believe the American people -- and the ...
Opinion: When Comcast Rules the World
By David Fagin - AOL NewsWhen the Federal Communications Commission approved the Comcast/NBC merger earlier this week, it set off all the usual complaints from all the usual suspects. You should be afraid! You should be mad!! Too much content control under one roof!!! Poppycock. So what if one company owns ... 10 TV and movie production studios (including Universal Pictures), 20 cable channels, 11 regional broadcast TV stations, 15 Telemundo stations (arriba!), nine regional sports cable networks, one regional news cable station (New England Cable News), a whole bunch of websites, two pro sports teams in ...
C-SPAN Supreme Court Series: The Re-Education of a Legal Analyst
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyAs regular readers of this space know, I have spent the past few months listening to audio recordings of some of the most important Supreme Court oral arguments of the past 50 years. By "some" I mean 10, though there are dozens more I'd like to get my ears on before I'm done. The C-SPAN Supreme Court series I wrote -- short introductory columns posted here many weekends to complement C-SPAN Radio's Saturday night broadcast of selected oral arguments -- has been a gift to me this holiday season. It has reconnected me with what I have always loved and respected about the law. And it has ...
Prop. 8 Arguments [LIVE VIDEO]
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Dec. 6) -- A three-judge panel representing San Francisco's 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing oral arguments on the California state ban on same-sex marriage today. California voters approved Proposition 8, a state constitutional amendment limiting marriage to a man and a woman, in the 2008 elections. The three-judge panel will evaluate whether a U.S. District Court correctly ruled that the voter-approved amendment is unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment. Today's oral arguments will take place in two hourlong sessions. The first hour will address issues. The second hour ...
C-SPAN Asks Boehner for More Access to House Floor
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyNew House speaker, new attitudes toward media access in Congress. That's the hope of C-SPAN officials, who have sent a letter to speaker-to-be John Boehner for permission to cover more of the debate on the House floor, USA Today reported Monday. The public affairs cable network hopes Boehner will allow its cameras the freedom to capture wide shots of the chamber and also to catch lawmakers' reactions while their colleagues are holding forth. Currently C-SPAN is limited to static shots of speaking congress members during debate. C-SPAN also wants to install remote control cameras. Network ...
At Rally to Restore Sanity, It's the Media's Turn to Cover Jon Stewart
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 29) -- A man who spends a great deal of his show poking fun at how news networks cover world events, Jon Stewart suddenly finds himself at the center of the media's attention. When Saturday's "Rally to Restore Sanity" and "March to Keep Fear Alive" begin on the Washington Mall, 400 news outlets will be there to chronicle what Stewart has called his "million moderate march," The New York Times reports. Print journalists, television reporters and bloggers will jockey for space among a crowd that may well near 200,000 people. Just as Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally became a bona ...
C-SPAN's Supreme Court Broadcasts: Students' Rights
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThis is the fourth in a series of 10 special Politics Daily columns to complement C-SPAN's broadcasts this fall of audiotape recordings of some of the most famous and important Supreme Court oral arguments of the past 50 years. The C-SPAN broadcasts will afford most Americans their first opportunity to hear the actual words spoken by the justices and the lawyers before them in arguments that shaped the law that has shaped our lives in countless ways. The fourth featured tape in the series, oral argument in Tinker v. Des Moines (1969), focuses upon symbolic speech and students' rights during ...
Young Conservatives Air 'Nerdy' Laundry on C-Span Panel
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyIt has been described as "the most awkward C-Span panel" ever. (It probably was). Let me set it up for you . . . National Review's Jonah Goldberg is out with a new book, "Proud to be Right," which is a collection of essays from conservatives under the age of 30 (listen to my podcast with Rachel Motte, one of the young writers featured in the book). During a C-Span 2 "Book TV" panel discussion about the book, libertarian-leaning Todd Seavey and Helen Rittelmeyer, two of the conservative essayists featured in the book, aired some "nerdy" laundry. Watch this must-see "battle of the exes" ...
C-SPAN's Supreme Court Broadcasts: Assisted Suicide
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThis is the third in a series of 10 special Politics Daily columns to complement C-SPAN's broadcasts this fall of audiotape recordings of some of the most famous and important Supreme Court oral arguments of the past 50 years. The C-SPAN broadcasts will afford most Americans their first opportunity to hear the actual words spoken by the justices and the lawyers before them in arguments that shaped the law that has shaped our lives in countless ways. The third featured tape in the series, focusing on the Washington v. Glucksberg right-to-die/assisted suicide argument in 1997, will be heard on ...
Jon Stewart's 'Rally to Restore Sanity' to Be Broadcast Live, Streamed Live
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 13) -- First the nation watched live as honor was restored. Soon, it will have the opportunity to see the same done to sanity. As with the Glenn Beck rally before, millions of Americans who cannot physically travel to Washington, D.C., will watch rallies hosted by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert in our nation's capital on their television and computer screens. On Tuesday, Stewart announced to viewers of "The Daily Show" that the show's website would host a live feed of the event, and that Comedy Central would also broadcast portions of the two rallies. "Comedy Central is willing to ...
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