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How C-SPAN Can Help Congress

Television played a part in deforming the institution’s work. Could it now help to reform it?
Yuval Levin /
US – POLITICS – ECONOMY
A TV screen shows the C-SPAN live transmission from the U.S. House of the Representatives on January 1, 2013. (Photo by MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images)

This summer, longtime CNN Washington Bureau Chief Sam Feist is set to become the new CEO of C-SPAN. He’s taking over a venerable and respected Washington institution, which is really saying something these days. But the network is deeply intertwined with another Washington institution that is in far more sorry shape: the United States Congress.

Yuval Levin is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and the editor of National Affairs. He is the author of several books, including American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again.

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