The penultimate moderate (because radically non-partisan) media news outlet is C-Span, which goes unmentioned by Wolff. C-Span’s moderators hardly ever take sides, their discussions with guests are civil (though their callers are not always so), and they let the guests or callers talk without interrupting or editorializing. Inerestingly, one can usually tell where the more wacked out callers get their news and views, whether from conservative cable or radio, or NPR, CBC, BBC, etc. The C-Span moderator is there to let others air their views, rather than pound home his or her own ideological agenda. The morning program, Washington Journal, is an excellent news broadcast, in a league of its own.

C-Span is a cable television public service network. In a way, it is through C-Span that cable pays its debt for the extreme partisanship of its commercial news programming.