"On Breakfast Television we get a very different Bob Hunter. What the network does is send a camera crew to Hunter's home every morning at about 7AM, where he is sat at his kitchen table in his bathrobe, with all the day's newspapers spread out before him. Hunter's been up long genough to have gone through the Star, the Goble, the Post -- possibly even the Sun -- and he's marked up the interesting bits wiht a highlighter.Well yes, I suppose it is. But it also sounds very similar to the paper review which has happened in various version on Channel 4 for the past five or so years on The Big Breakfast and now in a shadowy form on RI:SE. But I hadn't really thought of it as Blogging. If you really want to stretch that definition when I'm in a conversation and go off ten to the dozen on the subject, I'm Blogging as well. I thought weblogging was as much to do with the medium as the action.
When the news-anchor cuts to the remote feed from Hunter's kitchen, he takes us on a guided tour of the day's news, taking apart and contrasting the reportage from the different news-organs. This is blogging, plain and simple, but it's on live television. And it's interesting as hell.
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