[First Time Diary... Yahoo]
Long, Long Ago (5 years ago)...WE NOTICED. CSPAN lurched. And began to Slip... and Slide... and Hide... America's Truth.
Down... Down... Down... The Slippery Slope She Went ...
C-SPAN. Formerly, 'A Public Service' ... Still Brought to You... by the Cable Television Industry.
I propose... We... I... You... Gather Our Thoughts, our Talents... and Intiate a "CSPAN WATCH" to highlight the Manipulative Opinion-Shaping Re-Incarnation of CSPAN, a once much more FREE Media Outlet... into PropagandaTV.
CSPAN DeGeneration Watch
A full scale, clever... incursion, re-vision, and re-posturing of the CSPAN Network has occured. Small affairs, tones, manners and larger matters like program concepts and design... Q&A, etc. "The Interviewers" GLOM-y, sycophantic, Boosters- ala faux intellectual challenges from chummy insiders... galore.
Intrusive elements have been added... with subordinate aims: Distraction, opinion shaping, ommitting or re-directing content and ideas... both subtle and large scale. Consider the 'Capitol News' and 'Daily Polls.' Anonymous in source, canned, and questionable points-of-view, and ridiculous questions at times.
Serious Miscellany - Washington Journal and Other:
1) News Sources Limited to NYT/Washed Up Post/ WashTimes and Standard- DISCREDITED Beltway Journals.
2) Hosts cut people off who speak their mind against current Power Structure.
3) Cattle-Car Phone Lines- Defined by Party and Questioned incredulously by Hosts. Wear a "D" or "R" Star/Triangle on your pajama's before your dial.
4) Guests, Content, and Certain Organizations so Coordinated, Selected, Packaged and Presented that PR, Propaganda, Promotion REEKS from the TV SET. Surely, no spontaneity or freshness or Un-Canned Unscripted News or Exchange.
5) Heavy Rotation of authors/speakers etc... more timed to Publisher Calanders- further tied to Regime Agendas and Action Rollouts. Many are mediocre at best... and Typically so CONFLICTED as to loose credibilty. IN short... spoon feeding select content to the CSPAN viewers.
6) Much, Much programming IS NOT COVERED by "CSPAN CAMERAS" and much that is... is not broadcast... and MUCH is not broadcast frequently... while LONG LENGTHS of mundane, obscure programming take up in-ordinate amounts of air time. Like a news Blackout... omissions... schedule shortcomings, late postings, etc.
7) In some Markets (Washington DC Comcast) the Channels have been re-arranged... pushing CSPAN III into a Higher Level of PAID Programming... LOST to Lower Tier viewers.
Higher Channels Numbers for CSPAN I and II put it out of range for taping/recording on standard VCR's where the channels top out around #60.
8) Leading, shaping, suggestive, content-steering... heavy handed "questioning", informing, Instructing, Coaching by Hosts and interviewers.
9) General hostility, resentment against viewership when pressing an issue, or questioning the Orthodoxy.
10) An Overall Appearance of Lack of Editorial "Good Judgment" because of this COMPLEX of INCURSIONS, their timing, political leaning, serious impact, resistance to viewer re-dress of grievances, and surge-push-onslaught of continued changes despite Prior, Sucessful, Standing and High Regard of previous CSPAN Design and Functioning.