Sunday, March 4, 2012

C-SPAN BUS IS PROMOTING BOOKS ALONG WITH TV LITERACY.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: KENNETH C. CROWE II Staff writer

Books would seem to be a languishing holdover from another era at a time when the Internet and multitudes of television channel clamor for people's attention.

But aboard the C-SPAN School Bus, the world of books has found a flouring home.

Parked outside City Hall on Tuesday, the C-SPAN School Bus was giving the public, especially school children, an opportunity to see the inner workings of television and the place books have in the world of new media.

``We're talking to them about the importance of books,'' said Peter Kiley, C-SPAN's senior manager of affiliate relations.

The C-SPAN …

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