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...evening's events were telecast live over the Internet (http://www.improb.com) and will be broadcast by National Public Radio and C-SPAN. Audience members said they enjoyed the nature of the evening's festivities...
...there will be several chances to experience the event as it happens. The First Lady's appearance will be broadcast live to screens in Sanders Theatre, Science Center D and the Kennedy School's Wiener Auditorium. Campion is also investigating the possibility of coverage by New England Cable and C-SPAN...
This concern is not baseless. Appearing on C-SPAN in an effort to defend this legislation, Rep. Toby Roth (R-Wis.) alluded to this trend of "Anglocentricity," stating, "We do not want any hyphenate Americans in this country; we do not want Italian-Americans, Jewish-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Korean-Americans...." Roth added that we will not repeat the mistakes of the former Soviet Union by allowing multiple languages in our country, thus causing its disintegration...
...their approach in the future. "Assuming the candidate has been decided before the convention," says Lane Venardos, who oversaw CBS's coverage, "I can't imagine us going through this kind of rigmarole again." Jeffrey Zucker, his counterpart at NBC, points out that with such cable channels as CNN, C-SPAN and MSNBC providing full coverage, the broadcast networks are under less obligation to do so. "It's their party, and they can throw it the way they want to," says Zucker. "But that doesn't mean we have to cover it. And I'm not sure that...
This year many of the journalists in Houston will find ourselves, as we did four years ago, lingering in our hotel rooms, watching C-SPAN replay footage from conventions past. We will watch the 1956 Kennedy-Kefauver vice-presidential race; we'll see Ronald Reagan moving the 1976 convention with a concession speech that foreshadowed his triumph four years later; we'll hear Harry Truman's 1948 promise to "win this election and make the Republicans like it!" Then we'll leave the gloriously colorful black-and-white past and head for the brightly colored convention hall, hoping...