This month celebrates the 30th year of C-Span. In 2004, The Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network celebrated its 25th anniversary with 25 days of viewer call-in programming. This year I'd be satisfied if they celebrated with just 30 minutes of live tweets with hashtag #cspan across the bottom of the screen.
C-Span and Twitter have had a strange relationship: During the 2008 election, C-Span launched an awesome election/debate hub website with Twitter and blog feeds linked in. That's what actually got me into Twitter. More recently, Washington journal (the morning call in show on C-Span) began reading tweets that were sent @washjournal. unfortunately, I think this practice has been discontinued.
Twitter has grown because it's a public forum for discussion and debate. It seems a logical conclusion that the only national public affairs network would embrace this technology. It sure beats maddeningly listening to a busy signal all morning.
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