<font color="blue"> A controlled environment. Interviewing people that personally have not been to or seen anything in Iraq; let alone talking to freed Iraqi people; freed from a ruthless dictator.
C-Span is owned by whom????? Controlled by whom?????
Much different than actually being in Iraq.
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It appears that you have not spent much time watching C-Span. Here is the C-Span mission statement:
"THE C-SPAN MISSION
"C-SPAN is a public service created by the American cable television industry:
"To provide C-SPAN's audience access to the live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and to other forums where public policy is discussed, debated and decided--all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced presentation of points of view;
"To provide elected and appointed officials and others who would influence public policy a direct conduit to the audience without filtering or otherwise distorting their points of view;
"To provide the audience, through the call-in program, direct access to elected officials, other decision makers and journalists on a frequent and open basis;
"To employ production values that accurately convey the business of government rather than distract from it; and to conduct all other aspects of its operations consistent with these principles."
The environment is not controlled, and there are no interviews in the normal sense.
