Screen Saver TV all the time

For those of you who might have missed it in all the news this week.  You know with congress trying to push through a VERY unpopular health care bill and in one sweep changing 1/6th of the economy....

Anyway, C-SPAN has announced they they are putting their archives online.  You might have noticed that I have placed it on my 'Worth Watching' list.  Why?  This is AWESOME.  This is possibly going to change a lot.  Politicians are less likely to do stupid shit when they are going to have be accountable for that on TV.  We all know that this doesn't prevent some people (like most of the people in the bush administration from saying they didn't say something even when confronted with tape of them saying it...).  If you would like a place to start I like 'Book TV'.  They have some of the most interesting and intelligent writers on the show to talk about books they write.  You will really learn something.

I suspect in the coming months there is will be a lot of fun muckraking reporting in the blogs (the central news agencies are mostly stupid when it comes to real reporting these days).  I suspect we will see some things come out that will affect the elections this year.  I mean voting yes on health care is going to sink a lot of people but maybe this will help in a more discriminate way to remove some of the more ridiculous members of congress.  We can hope I guess.