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...about TV, the most upright of us, like David Broder of the Washington Post, do it. . I do it, and most of my colleagues do it. Even lefties like the Nation's Alexander Cockburn do it. Most of us love doing it. We'll do it for nothing on C-SPAN and ^ MacNeil/Lehrer, or for the TV equivalent of the minimum wage on Meet the Press and Face the Nation. In fact, with due allowance for the rare principled exception, anyone in print who doesn't do it probably hasn't been asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: Hey, That's Me on TV! | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...shows and performance, or else a dozen intermittently worthy channels, two with nothing but news, two with nothing but congressional sessions, one with nothing but kids' shows, several with music, two with nothing but science and nature programs, and so on. In other words, in a world of CNN, C-SPAN, A&E, the Discovery Channel, public TV begins to seem redundant. Charlie Rose, the 1990s' Dick Cavett, conducts thoughtful interviews with members of the cultural elite every night on PBS. But with the actual Cavett doing the same thing on CNBC, Rose (who last week interviewed Sarah Jessica Parker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Necessary Is PBS? | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

Were they alive in a few short months for the start of the confirmation hearings, the authors of the Constitution would be glued to C-Span watching what may be the final episode of the American federal judiciary they intended...

Author: By Edward F. Mulkerin iii, | Title: Judicial--and Political--Restraint | 4/6/1993 | See Source »

...Bill Clinton thinks he is going to get the public ear about taxes or health care during this next few weeks, he is mistaken. A congressional aide confesses the three sets in his boss's office are on CNN, C-Span and March Madness. There is no contest. Let the country pause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugh Sidey's America: Floor of Dreams | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

...screening room for a movie, but in the interest of sleeping and getting packed for the road show that was to start in the morning, he declined. Not so Hillary. Well after midnight, the President grabbed her, and they headed off to watch a rerun on C-Span of the hours-old hit everyone in the country was talking about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: . . . And Then Came Carrot Cake | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

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