This is just pathetic.
When C-SPAN's TV cameras in the U.S. House chamber went out on Wednesday, producers did what resourceful, 21st century newspeople at any other station would have done: They turned to streaming Internet video—Facebook Live and the smartphone app Periscope, to be specific—to continue covering an important story. […]
C-SPAN's decision to work around the rules and show the sit-in was—rather predictably—viewed by some as a sign of political bias. When Republicans held a sit-in in 2008 to protest high gas prices, C-SPAN cameras also went dark; carrying a Periscope feed wasn't an option back then.
Just to be clear, that Republican protest in 2008 was on behalf of Big Oil. It wasn't about high gas prices—it was about trying to open up more offshore drilling. (Kind of telling contrast there, no? Big Oil versus thousands of murdered people.)
Had Periscope or Facebook Live existed in 2008, and had any Republican member been smart enough to know how to use it, C-SPAN probably would have shown it. Because it's their job to cover Congress. That's exactly what they were doing.
You weenies.