when cable 'news' channels cut away from the president speaking for commercials......

[spanone]

it tells you what is really important to them.



turn to cspan

[malaise]

1. It's sickening

:puke:

[msongs]

2. msnbc has not cut away....so far nt

[malaise]

4. You must be watching on line

for they sure have cut for ads on TV.

[msongs]

9. yep..watching online nt

[spanone]

5. uh, yes they did. i was watching.

[itsrobert]

3. I turned on CSPAN and the President wasn't being covered at all

:shrug:

[malaise]

6. CSpan 3 or

CSpan.org

[itsrobert]

10. How many cable/sat has CSPAN 3

None, that I have ever seen.

[spanone]

14. really, my comcast cable has cspan 1 2 and 3....

[MrSlayer]

7. He's not on C-Span.

I went there first.

[spanone]

11. i'm watching him on cspan 3 right now.

http://www.cspan.org/Watch/C-SPAN3_wm.aspx

[MrSlayer]

22. I don't have C-Span 3.

I have 1 and 2 but not 3, unfortunately. CNN and MSNBC are staggering their commercials so it's not too bad.

[960]

8. Better to start out on cspan, but just because the pres gives a speech doesn't mean

any news channel has to cover all (or any) of it anyway.

Usually C-Span doesn't cover these "townhall" campaign style speeches anyway, though.

I never liked it when Bush got any free airtime he wanted, and this speech from Obama is certainly nothing I haven't heard before.

[spanone]

12. nobody HAS to cover anything...but the President, right now, is pretty damned important. imo

[960]

15. Well, what was so important? I didn't hear anything substantive or new

[spanone]

17. why are you even watching then.....? p.s. he's still talking

[960]

20. I'm not watching it anymore.

But you didn't answer my question.

[spanone]

21. i'm not watching to tell you.....

if you don't care enough to listen. i don't care.

[960]

23. No, I think you just know I'm right.

It's really not worth watching.

[spanone]

25. bwahahahahahaaaaaa you must miss mr bu$h*

[960]

26. no, i just wish we had gotten more of a change.

[spanone]

27. ahh

[Motown_Johnny]

13. not on CSPAN or CSPAN2, I tried. MSNBC is the only one covering it at all that I can find

OK, so they cut to commercials a couple of times.

Still better than anyone else is doing IMO

[spanone]

16. watch in online c-span THREE here's a link

http://www.cspan.org/Watch/C-SPAN3_wm.aspx

[bridgit]

18. Of course, it's never been about selling news to people, but people to advertisers

[devilgrrl]

19. What's important to them is undermining everything Obama does....

which is exactly what I figured once he was sworn in as President. It's the same scenario as when Clinton got into office.

[spanone]

24. they spend all day talking ABOUT him, but when he speaks.....

[Dave From Canada]

28. Come'on, Obama's on television every day giving a speech. He's way over-exposed.

[spanone]

30. really?

everyday?

overexposed?

:shrug:

[alsame]

29. The same channels that would show every single minute of

McCain and Palin hate rallies during the campaign. No commercial breaks, no talk-overs.