Reading Analysis #1

Dear C-Span,

For starters, three of your channels (C-Span, C-Span 2, and C-Span 3) including your radio station and several of your websites provide uninterrupted live coverage of the United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate, live public affairs events, archived C-Span history, events such as Presidential press conferences and speeches, other government meetings and hearings, and pentagon press conferences. Occasionally you provide international events such as the British House of Commons meetings from the United Kingdoms BBC parliament. While I was reading and reflecting on the news coverage you provided I don’t have a doubt in my mind that you have the best political coverage in the nation. While being the best political coverage “nationwide,” it amazes me that within the C-Span television channels, radio station, websites, programs such as the Washington Journal, and overall, you are able to provide a substantive amount of objectivity within your works. The general public is informed by many different media outlets nationwide, being exposed to many bias and negative opinions within politics. For example, Meg Whitman, a candidate for the Governor of California is being hassled about her past issue with finances by other media outlets such as Fox News. In contrast to these bias media resources for political coverage, I would like to thank you for providing the most unbiased political coverage in the nation. There are two main reasons why you are the best objective political media outlet. First, the Washington Journal Program that airs live every morning on C-Span shows some objectivity in its line of works. What I recognized while watching your Washington Journal anchors is that they don’t use their names when covering a story, which is something that I greatly appreciate you doing. When the media anchor doesn’t use their name and is basically not allowed to talk about themselves and their character, which happens in your Washington Journal program, it removes them (the media anchors) as characters from the news experience. What I mean by this is that news outlets such as CNN and Fox News, provides the names, physical characteristics, and overall personality of their news anchors. Knowing all of this about a news anchor gives the public an idea of whether or not to like the news anchor because of his/her personality, if he/she is very opinionated, etc, the public will always judge a news anchor based on how they present themselves. In the end, news outlets like CNN and Fox News will have the public judging their news based on how it is presented and whom it is presented by. Your Washington Journal Program is brilliant because of how the anchors provide no character to be judged by the public because presenting the news is all they want the public to hear. In conclusion to my first main reason why you are the best objective political media outlet in the nation is because of how your Washington Journal anchors don’t want to be apart of the experience of the news story, but they simply want to give the public the news so they can judge it themselves. The second main reason why you are the best objective political media outlet in the nation is because of how the Senate hearings are organized. While watching CNN and Fox News coverage on the Senate Hearings their routine is to always have a reporter outside of the Senate Chamber reporting and interpreting to the public on television what’s happening inside the Senate Chamber. What I love about C-Span is that you folks put a camera man inside the Senate Chamber and let the film roll for as along as it takes, giving the public complete access to what is actually going on inside the Senate Chamber versus listening to some reporter from CNN or Fox News interpret what they are getting from this hearing. In conclusion to my second main reason of why you are the best unbiased political media outlet is because in the Senate Chamber you have a camera man inside recording every move and every issue brought up, basically putting the information out there for the public and having the public view it on television and judge it themselves. Whereas CNN and Fox News have a reporter outside reading off notes he got from listening to the hearing; but what better resource is there for the public then their own ears and eyes? In my opinion, the objectivity maintained by C-Span has been lost to “entertainment,” (being “personalities” like the mainstream media anchors) at other news outlets. Therefore, to all C-Span affiliates thank you so much for providing the best unbiased political coverage in the nation by giving us more objectivity by not changing the news, but simply putting the news out there and having us, the public judge it ourselves.

Keep up the great objectivity C-Span!!!!!!