January 13, 2017

C-SPAN’s Online Feed Interrupted By Russia Today

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this important message: Здравствуйте from Russia! That’s essentially what happened when C-SPAN’s coverage of an SEC hearing was suddenly replaced by 10 minutes of the Kremlin-backed news channel Russia Today. C-SPAN says it was probably just an internal routing error but the channel is investigating anyway. Meanwhile, the bizarre switch only adds to the infinite list of conspiracy theories regarding Russia’s control of our information sources.

Yes, I want to sound marginally more intelligent: