Over the past week, C-SPAN has covered the narrow, early morning vote on Donald Trump‘s ‘big beautiful bill.” It carried in full the president’s at-times bizarre Oval Office clash with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. It captured the heated exchange between Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Sen. Patti Murray (D-WA).
At times the source of humor for its offering of comprehensive coverage of extremely wonkish TV in an era of ever-short attention spans, C-SPAN has nevertheless been a go-to destination for the unedited moments in D.C. at an unprecedented era of hyper-partisanship, high anxiety and heavy drama.
The irony is that the network, launched in 1979, finds itself at a crossroads. Funded by the cable industry, it has seen its revenue fall as consumers cut the cord, while the most popular streaming alternatives have yet to carry the C-SPAN channels to
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