Longtime C-SPAN editorial director benjamin_oc on a whirlwind week for a network not used to whirlwinds. A conversation with realaxelfoley
to House GOP rebels machinating against their foes. There was a reason this seemed unusual: As many people learned for the first time this week, the election of a Speaker is one of the rare occasions when C-Span is allowed to present a full picture of what’s happening on the House floor. That fact, combined with the spectacle of the moment, put C-Span at the center of political conversation in a way it never had been before.
Yeah. And there have been White House Correspondents’ Dinners that have been huge, and the political conventions every four years, and the State of the Union every year. There are certainly times when we notice an uptick in interest, but never anything like this..] No, I’m not. I’m not sure many people understand that most of the time, when they’re watching C-Span on the House floor and Senate floors, it’s being shot by the House recording studio or Senate recording studio government-run offices within the Capitol that provide the sole coverage of legislative sessions in those two bodies. Independent-media cameras are entirely excluded from the chambers in the House.
You also said that you do have planning meetings where you all huddle and, and discuss plotlines, so to speak.
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