Beginning at 7am PT tomorrow, former FBI director James Comey will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee about his firing by President Trump and the events leading up to it. Much of the nation will be focused on the testimony, perhaps the most notable congressional hearing since the Watergate era.
44 years ago, broadcast networks carried live coverage of the Watergate hearings for two weeks, an unprecedented event for the television industry that kept Watergate front and center in water-cooler conversations. Today, water coolers have been displaced by social network feeds, and while the networks will again carry live coverage of Comey’s hearing, the Internet also will offer a second-screen experience that allows for the national conversation to occur in real time.
The hearing and the subsequent implosion on social media will be worth watching. After all, history like this doesn’t happen every day. (Okay, these days maybe it does.)
How to watch the hearing
Honestly, it’s going to be hard to avoid the hearing. Every broadcast network and major cable-news channel will be televising and live streaming the hearing. Digital news publications like the New York Times, The Washington Post, and many others will carry live feeds and/or live blog the event on their sites.
Facebook says all of the outlets above will be streaming the hearing live on Facebook, as will news sites like Buzzfeed, Politico, Vox and a lot of local TV affiliates owned by Fox, Sinclair and others.
Twitter says it’s tapping into its new partnership with Bloomberg to live stream Bloomberg…
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