{"id":1925,"date":"2009-03-04T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/04\/ready-for-prime-time"},"modified":"2009-03-04T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T21:40:00","slug":"ready-for-prime-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1925","title":{"rendered":"Ready for prime time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/house22.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309452928203353490\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bca24-house22.jpg?w=300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>I like the idea being kicked around about televising Texas legislative proceedings.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Will it be a ratings hit? Probably not. The Amarillo City Commission and the Randall County Commissioners Court broadcast their meetings on public access TV. I do not believe the public waits with bated breath to see how our elected officials conduct the public&#8217;s business.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>But this is a useful tool to improve transparency in state government, as it has helped to some degree at the federal level. C-SPAN broadcasts House and Senate proceedings. No, they aren&#8217;t huge ratings hits, either, except when either body gets embroiled in controversial debates.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>The most useful role C-SPAN plays on Capitol Hill is showing how lawmakers pontificate to an empty chamber during those interminable &#8220;special order&#8221; speeches. <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>It adds, uh, <em>context<\/em> &#8212; don&#8217;t you think?<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like the idea being kicked around about televising Texas legislative proceedings. Will it be a ratings hit? Probably not. The Amarillo City Commission and the Randall County Commissioners Court broadcast their meetings on public access TV. I do not believe the public waits with bated breath to see how our elected officials conduct the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1925\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ready for prime time<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}