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TV Behind The Scenes As C-SPAN’s Team Captured The Chaos In D.C.

With its tagline “Democracy Unfiltered,” the channel typically covers committee hearings and presidential events, which is why Saturday night’s frantic, harrowing scene at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was so unexpected. But as the drama played out live on its air, the C-SPAN team quickly mobilized. Deadline’s Political Editor Ted Johnson, who also was at the Washington Hilton that night, talked with several of the network’s journalists, production staff and executives to collect a first-person recounting of what CEO Sam Feist called “a night that none of us will ever forget.”

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