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...particular, Wrinn said Vice President of Government, Community and Public Affairs James H. Rowe III '73 wants access to CNN, C-Span and other news networks...
...fails to consider the needs of the Harvard community and its individual members. Perhaps the Kennedy School is concerned that its speakers will be annoyed by protesters; yet annoyance and even outrage are basic components of political debate. The conflict of ideas is truly a battle. Perhaps, aware that C-SPAN was taping Specter's speech for later broadcast on television, Dean Carnesale was trying to protect the image of the University, yet instead he announced to the entire nation that Harvard does not tolerate the open dialogue that is essential to the pursuit of knowledge...
Despite some self-generated speculation that he'd run for governor of Indiana, Dan Quayle has decided that downward mobility is not in his political future. "The only office I am interested in is running for the presidency," the former vice president told C-SPAN today. "I'm going to enjoy Indiana, going to enjoy my family and see what happens." Quayle had set himself a Memorial Day deadline to decide on a GOP gubernatorial...
...happened. Politicians are quite in touch with opinion polls and have learned not to ignore the Rush Limbaughs of the world, with their ability to marshal rage over topics ranging from Hillary to the House post office. Public feedback fills Washington fax machines, phones and E-mail boxes. From C-SPAN's studios just off Capitol Hill, lawmakers chat with callers live -- including callers who have been monitoring their work via C-SPAN cameras on Capitol Hill. More messages from the real world pass through the Beltway barrier than ever before. And contrary to popular belief, politicians pay attention. What...
...noted the role that for-profit cable networks -- PBS's competitors -- have played in providing a platform for Gingrich's attacks: the new House Speaker has his own show on National Empowerment Television, a conservative cable network, and was recently inveighing against the CPB in an hourlong interview on C-SPAN. Moyers expressed suspicion of "publicly supported politicians in the service of a commercial industry that, frankly, would like to see public television not exist...