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C-SPAN: The World’s Dullest Telescope on America’s Loudest Democracy By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, Geneva Every civilization eventually builds a monument to its own attention span. The Romans had the Colosseum, India has the Taj Mahal, and the United States—ever the pioneer in low-cost masochism—gave us C-SPAN. Conceived in 1979 as a charitable…