CSPAN+Exponent Ideas?

As you will see in the Tuesday edition of the Exponent this week, I wrote a story on students being hired as crossing guards on Purdue's campus. They held a callout meeting Monday night which I attended, and during this time I was feverishly taking notes and asking questions. I decided that it would be fun to play with an app on my phone to record the event. While walking away from the meeting, I played it back and, of course, had to listen to the terrible quality the audio was since my phone's mic was so far away from the source of the audio. I then had a mini epiphany. Why doesn't the Exponent pursue more primary source style documenting, like C-SPAN does, as an option for our readers. It would be awesome if I could go to an interview/conference, give the speaker a wireless mic and record everything he says in a nice quality. We could then attach this to our stories in a mini-embedded player. This would give our readers who want to know everything about the topic the ability to listen to the entire interaction. It would also allow the paper to use this content for possible future podcasts. If there was ever a confusion about misquoting an interviewee, we'd have proof of what was said. The hardware can't be too expensive and I believe the benefits from using it would be very high. Hopefully with our new website, we can easily store and publish this kind of content. I think we'd be the first student newspaper to do this, and might set a standard in the industry for providing a minimal/non-bias approach to our stories. I certainly would trust a news source more if I had access to the original content.