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Directions: Answer the questions below with information you have before and/or after you visit the C-SPAN School Bus!
1. How is television a resource for studying history? How can it be a resource for learning about government?
2. If you could view any event from history on television, actually view the event, what event would it be? What rules would the television producers and camera operators have to follow in order to ensure that you were getting an accurate representation of the event?
3. If you could view any process within government, what process would you most like to observe, first-hand? What rules would the television producers and camera operators have to follow in order to ensure that you were getting an accurate representation of the process?
4. Review C-SPAN's programming mission. Identify some rules a network like C-SPAN might follow in order to ensure that the coverage of history and government is as accurate and "first-hand" as possible.
5. How might C-SPAN's coverage of history and government be different than that of other networks?
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