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C-Span Posts Full Archives Online
An anonymous reader sends word that C-Span has completed its project of making all of its footage available online. "The archives, at C-SpanVideo.org, cover 23 years of history and five presidential administrations and are sure to provide new fodder for pundits and politicians alike. The network will formally announce the completion of the C-Span Video Library on Wednesday. Having free online access to the more than 160,000 hours of C-Span footage is like being able to Google political history using the "I Feel Lucky" button every time,' said Rachel Maddow, the liberal MSNBC host."
C-SPAN is a private non-profit and receives no government funding.
cspan isn't funded by the government.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
WARNING: that's not a link of rachel maddow eating Anonymous Coward's asshole.
Why do any work at all? The closed captioning data is all there, and is searchable. Plus if you click the transcript, it takes you to that part of the video.
He then goes on to talk about how corruption is a problem for both parties, it is pretty obvious that the bit you are pointing out is him sniping at Republicans, not him talking about how it's a good thing the corruption in Ohio favors Democrats.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Transcripts are searchable...
...however it is not working for me at the moment.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/search-results.php?keywords=series+of+tubes
CSPAN isn't always boring. Sometimes authors speak very compellingly about their books. When they've got a good author and a good topic, CSPAN is easily the best thing on the tube.
Check out the rights page. All of the footage of Congress and various Federal events is under the Public Domain. It's annoyingly still flash video, but you can legally rip it from the site and do whatever you want with it. Same with the subtitles.
It's nice to see copyright law working correctly for once.
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The doors may be closed (actually, they rarely are), but the cameras are still rolling inside.
Senate committee hearings are streamed live on their respective websites, and are archived shortly thereafter. If you need something that predates the Senate's streaming media operation, the Library of Congress or the National Archives can help you. Because there can be over a dozen hearings going on simultaneously (sometimes while the Senate floor is also in session), most of these do not make it to C-SPAN, although they are indeed available to anybody with the patience to watch them.
If something seems egregiously absent, send a FOIA request.
(Disclaimer: I work for the Senate Recording Studio who are responsible for the production of any TV or Radio broadcasts/recordings that take place in the Senate)
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
It is even crazier if you throw in the idea that the 1981 release of hostages was manipulated to get Reagan elected. But this is a suspect theory:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_surprise_conspiracy_theory
You forgot the quotes "series of tubes" brings this up.