C-SPAN turns 45 -- and Brian Lamb is still a saint
Lamb, who founded the public affairs network, and I go way back. I met him in LA in '80, Q&A-ed him in '04 and was interviewed by him on his Q&A program about my book 'Dogging Steinbeck' in '13.
Brian Lamb is a great American, a superior journalist, a saint in an age when the print and electronic media rose to great heights and then sank to its current dishonest and biased depths.
Here, supplemented by the substackian coverage of Reason magazine’s Nick Gillespie, is my substack interview with Lamb, complete with audi
Q&A: Brian Lamb, a lonely saint in DC
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Dec. 21, 2004 Talk about your fair-and-balanced TV. Thanks to saintly cable pioneer Brian Lamb, C-SPAN has been providing the country with a serious, unbiased and unfiltered look at the widest possible spectrum of political ideas and information for 25 years.
Reason’s Nick Gillespie is also a Brian Lamb fan, as he shows here: