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...C-SPAN...
...look of true believers. No wilted shirt collars in this group. With hair carefully styled and blow-dried, they look like local-news anchormen. Television is, in fact, their medium. Its cameras are permitted in the House (unlike the stodgier Senate), and the young Turks unabashedly perform for the C-SPAN telecasts of floor debates. A Democratic majority still runs the House, so the Republicans are freer to posture...
...Neill aflame was a bit of showboating by Gingrich; during a fiery denunciation of several Democrats' views on Central America, he paused suggestively in midspeech, as if to dare his foes to respond. In fact, he was taunting empty benches, but that was not noted by C-SPAN's cameras, which were allowed to focus only on the orator...
...televised Democratic round table, at January's Dartmouth College free-for-all: "The debates have become the crucible we hoped for." Key themes of the campaign have emerged from the six subsequent national TV debates-two more on PBS, plus two on Cable News Network, one on the C-Span cable network, and the one in New York on CBS. Apart from their direct impact on viewers, debates are excerpted on TV news and help set the agenda for the press. When Hart asked Mondale in an Iowa debate to cite one issue on winch he had differed with...