By airing unfettered video coverage of speeches and legislative proceedings, C-SPAN gives those in office and other figures of public interest a channel through which they can reach the public without the filters of traditional media outlets.
Our colleagues over at The Lede blog followed coverage of the speech.
The coverage of the speech would be inter-mingled with coverage of the debate, meaning that Obama's preferred message would be decidedly muddled.
Cable news was, too: after cursory coverage of the speech, it returned to the real news of the day, Ted and Caroline Kennedy's endorsement, that morning, of Obama's campaign.
The bounce will only come if Romney secures plenty of prime-time television coverage of his speech, and the host of Republican stars talking him up.
To his mind, The Post had not been fair in its coverage of his speech, as evidenced by its decision to change its headline.
The "Good Morning America" anchor George Stephanopoulos, who oversaw live coverage of the speech on ABC with Robin Roberts, called it "one of the most remarkable public apologies by a public figure ever".
Britain's two biggest tabloid newspapers, the Sun and the Daily Mail, led their coverage of the speech with "PM to slash migrants' rights" and "Immigration crackdown".In this section Don't mess Cutting losses Toothless truth tellers Everyone out Aux armes, citoyens!
PM Sir John Major "appeared overcome with emotion" as President Clinton paid tribute to the Conservative's "peacemaking role and spoke of a Northern Ireland where 'the guns are quiet and the children play without fear'," according to the Daily Mail's coverage of his speech to MPs and peers.
