C-Span Posts Full Archives Online 115
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."
Re:Not for Long (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Not for Long (Score:2, Informative)
Re:rachel maddow can eat my asshole (Score:1, Informative)
Re:If you can find anything (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:Nothing sacred (Score:2, Informative)
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.
Re:Close captioned? (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/search-results.php?keywords=series+of+tubes [c-spanvideo.org]
Re:Not for Long (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:Too Bad No Creative Commons (Score:5, Informative)
It's nice to see copyright law working correctly for once.
Re:Too bad... (Score:5, Informative)
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)
Re:Goody! (Score:3, Informative)
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 [wikipedia.org]
Re:Close captioned? (Score:1, Informative)
You forgot the quotes "series of tubes" brings this [c-spanvideo.org] up.