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# No ‘Span’ on the horizon
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/no-span-on-the-horizon-editor/
- Published: 2007-08-16T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T02:35:24.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Thomas M. Sipos Santa Monica*

Shame on Time-Warner cable! Upon buying Adelphia, they dropped C-SPAN 2 from basic tier and replaced it with... a blank screen!

All three C-SPAN channels are a vital public service. It’s what the lucrative cable monopolies pay for the privilege of operating outside the free market. Sure, C-SPAN 2 is still carried on Santa Monica’s City-TV, but not 24/7.

Most other “news” sources are partisan and dummied-down. From neo-con Reich-Wing Radio to their knee-jerk opposites on Air America, from biased blogs to YouTube clowns, people go to whichever carnival barker tells them what they want to hear.

Amid this idiocracy, C-SPAN shines as a stark example of unbiased, intelligent and in-depth political coverage. C- SPAN, C-SPAN 2 and C-SPAN 3 should all be available on the basic tier of every cable system.

The media monopolies owe it to us.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 16, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/081607.pdf?ref=smdp.com)