{"id":535798,"date":"2023-01-06T00:05:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T21:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/c-span-is-americas-hottest-tv-drama-in-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T00:05:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T21:05:41","slug":"c-span-is-americas-hottest-tv-drama-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/c-span-is-americas-hottest-tv-drama-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"#C-SPAN Is America\u2019s Hottest TV Drama in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40a9a61cb01\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40a9a61cb01\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/c-span-is-americas-hottest-tv-drama-in-2023\/#C-SPAN_Is_Americas_Hottest_TV_Drama_in_2023\" >C-SPAN Is America\u2019s Hottest TV Drama in 2023<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"C-SPAN_Is_Americas_Hottest_TV_Drama_in_2023\"><\/span>C-SPAN Is America\u2019s Hottest TV Drama in 2023<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    For three days now, America has been addicted to a new TV show playing out before our eyes: The U.S. House of Representatives on C-SPAN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Kevin McCarthy, either the show\u2019s protagonist or antagonist, depending on who you ask, is trying \u2014 and so far failing \u2014 to become Speaker of the House. And it\u2019s all h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening live, with the non-profit public affairs channel garnering more attention than it has since, well, maybe ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cI mean, just any brief scroll of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> shows you thousands of people talking about us that typically, probably, would not be talking about us,\u201d C-SPAN director of editorial operations Ben O\u2019Connell tells <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. \u201cI don\u2019t recall the last time I have seen C-SPAN mentioned on Twitter with this frequency. I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s ever happened before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Indeed, C-SPAN has been ubiquitous this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cThis the best season of C-SPAN\u2026 ever,\u201d tweeted Jon Stewart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cWatching McCarthy work Rep. Andrew Clyde is C-SPAN at its no-rules best,\u201d said veteran D.C. journalist Jonathan Allen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cI haven\u2019t watched this much C-SPAN since I was a child\u2026 (@cindymccain kept it on in the background of our kitchen),\u201d Meghan McCain tweeted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cMaybe this is C-SPAN sweeps week,\u201d added <em>Washington Post<\/em> columnist Alexandra Petri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Even viewers of other TV channels couldn\u2019t avoid it, with CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper telling viewers: \u201cThere\u2019s a very real impact to all this dysfunction, besides C-SPAN\u2019s ratings going up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    C-SPAN, it should be noted, is not rated by Nielsen, as it doesn\u2019t have advertising on its linear TV channels (though it does have ads on some of its streaming videos, and you can buy C-SPAN merch like a \u201cC-SPAN and chill\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c-spanshop.org\/collections\/c-span-and-chill\">blanket<\/a> on its website). But there\u2019s no question that, at least this week, everyone is glued to its coverage, if all the clips ricocheting across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok are any indication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    While some coverage has suggested that a lack of a House speaker means there are no rules around outside cameras in the House chamber, O\u2019Connell says that isn\u2019t quite right. Rather, the House allows outside cameras in for big events, like a State of the Union, an impeachment vote, or, yes, a speaker vote. Those special events just don\u2019t normally last, ya know, a whole week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cIt\u2019s not unusual that we would have our cameras in there for the speaker election, it\u2019s just that this is a very unusual speaker election, so people are paying a lot more attention to it,\u201d O\u2019Connell says. \u201cMany Americans are probably not aware that most of the time that you see the House of Representatives on C-SPAN, it\u2019s actually being shot by government employees with government cameras, and they have fairly stringent guidelines under which they have to operate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Having independent cameras and camera operators in the chambers is the reason that viewers watching C-SPAN on TV or online saw Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) deep in conversation with Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), who \u201care not exactly ideologically aligned with one another, to put it mildly,\u201d O\u2019Connell notes. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen Kevin McCarthy, having to sit there and listen to people vote against him over and over again.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cYou know, during a typical house session, you don\u2019t see reaction shots,\u201d O\u2019Connell adds. \u201cIt\u2019s against the guidelines that the House recording studio operates under. You do not see people reacting to what\u2019s being said about them or about their position. And over the last couple days, you\u2019ve seen a lot of that. And we\u2019ll continue to see that for as long as this goes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    He adds that the House studio employees are \u201cgreat professionals \u2026 They are very good at what they do. But they operate under very strict guidelines that don\u2019t allow them to tell the story, the way the journalists can tell it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cIf it were the government operating the cameras, you wouldn\u2019t get the story the way that you\u2019re getting it right now,\u201d O\u2019Connell says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    And this week at least, journalists are able to tell that story, thanks to C-SPAN\u2019s cameras, catching the huddled groups on the side of the chamber, the negotiating in plain sight, and the reactions to the absurd goings-on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    And while it\u2019s unlikely that the freedom will continue once a speaker is finally chosen and the cameras return to the control of House employees, C-SPAN will be among the outlets pushing for that status quo to change, as it has long done when it comes to access to Congress, the Supreme Court, and other institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cI think it is absolutely a worthy endeavor for us to continue pursuing having cameras in the room when major decisions are being made, that are going to affect the lives of the American people. And we will continue to push for that,\u201d O\u2019Connell says. \u201cI hope that coverage, like we\u2019ve seen over the last two days, will lead people to understand how integral it is to have journalists behind the cameras when these decisions are being made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    With the chaos in the House likely to become a season-long drama (to drive home that analogy), featuring razor-close votes, dramatic speeches and other surprises (maybe a cameo or two?), viewers may yearn for the freedom they are getting from the C-SPAN journalists this week even more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    At the very least, maybe all of C-SPAN old and new fans will have an appreciation for the public affairs channel, and its financial backers in the cable TV industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cI\u2019ve been with the company for almost 22 years, and I still have people who I know very well who discover for the first time in conversations with me that C-SPAN is not a government agency,\u201d O\u2019Connell says. \u201cI think we are so identified with coverage of the House, coverage of the Senate, that they assume we are a government agency, and not a non-profit that\u2019s, you know, 90 percent funded by the cable and satellite television companies that carry us.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    It\u2019s enough to almost make you want to call your friends and implore them to pay for cable, for America\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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