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The Vital Role of Public Affairs Television in Volatile Times From C-SPAN to its state-level counterparts, public affairs television and its minute-by-minute coverage of government proceedings have rarely been more critical than in the past year. After a year marked by a pandemic, recession, contentious elections, racial tensions, the sacking of the U.S. Capitol and threats against state capitols, public affairs television is providing a COVID-friendly infrastructure for supporting public institutions and even helping to protect democratic processes. “This instrument can teach,” said legendary CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow in 1958. The instrument in question is television and Murrow held out hope that TV’s signal could overcome the noise of then-contemporary society, complete as it was with “evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live. We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent.” Smithsonian magaz

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