Callers from all over the country wanted to complain about C-SPAN board member Allan Block. The calls were part of a coordinated campaign by a labor union to call attention to Block and his role in resisting a strike against the Post-Gazette.
“The callers keep missing the point,” a woman introduced as Linda from Connecticut complained on Tuesday. “It’s not about Joe Biden. It’s not about Republicans in Congress. I don’t know why so many of you are ignoring the fact that in Pittsburgh, C-SPAN board member Allan Block is trying to bust a newspaper union.”
Host Pedro Echevarria frequently protested that the board member and his business in Pennsylvania had nothing to do with C-SPAN’s programming or the news of the day, but to little avail. What one nonplussed caller from Kansas termed “these Allan Block people” kept flooding the lines.
NewsGuild president Jon Schleuss said the call-in campaign was a tool to raise awareness of the strike and to hold C-SPAN and Block accountable for their association. He said the effort would continue until the network removes Block from its board, although no more calls to C-SPAN were immediately planned.
Block holds no power over the network’s programming as a board member — something C-SPAN hosts have been at pains to tell upset callers over and over.
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