Earlier today, President Donald Trump announced he would replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo. In Pompeo’s place, Trump appointed Deputy Director Gina Haspel, and many outlets reported that would make her the first person to hold that position. But she is not.

Since 1979, C-SPAN, the Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, has been a constant comrade on the tour through the TV channels, generally been taken for granted as a public service - which it is. As a majority of FCC complaints regarding the network show, it’s a service people would like to see extended and free of abuse … not unlike our democracy itself.