>> i had a job as a result of having gone to oxford, interviewing american cultural figures for the bbc radio back in england. in new york, i interviewed a fiction editor. famed as the man who made ray monday car ver a great man. he said at the end of the interview. i didn't have one and i lied and said, sure. he said give me a look at it. iú went home and wrote a short story and received my first contract. we were first introduced to you. i had never heard about you in my life. >> in about 1992 or so, the producer of the show dropped this magazine article on my desk. she was some what incessant about what you wrote. i had a different reaction. i want to read it back to you. >> i remember writing it and the sentiment but not the sentences. >> i want you to tell me where you think the world has gone since this. the headline on it is "rahm tv." if television is a plug in drug, then c-span is the antidote, the network to watch when you want to come down. the programs are shot in color but might as well be in black and white there are no commercials. the almost total lack of editing and super sluggish camera wo