For connoisseurs of C-SPAN, the serial failure of this week’s marathon voting sessions to elect (or not) a Speaker of the House made for riveting television.
Pathetic? Enraging? Ludicrous? Honestly pretty funny, but in a patience-testing, Andy Kaufman sort of way? For most Americans, this week’s marathon voting sessions to elect a Speaker of the House were all of those things. But, for connoisseurs of C-, serial failure made for riveting television, at least by that network’s normal production standards, which veer more toward vintage Soviet broadcasts than toward “Real Housewives” or the N.F.L. on Fox.
There were vivid tableaux, especially on the first day, as the House floor churned with energy and the aisles filled with knots of gesticulating legislators; viewers—especially if they were cinéastes with generous imaginations—may have been reminded of the roiling, Old Master-inspired crowd scenes in “Raging Bull.
The Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network launched in 1979, aiming for neither art house nor multiplex. Rather, it began just the way you’d imagine: with a platitudinous speech on the floor of the House from the then representative Al Gore, Jr. The network was allowed to cover day-to-day business in the House and the Senate on the condition that the leadership of each institution control the cameras and the feeds.
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