Tomorrow morning's GMTV Sunday Programme features a 10 minute interview with Labour Home's Alex Hilton (the blogger formerly known as Recess Monkey) and myself, talking about the future of blogging. Steve Richards is the interviewer. He told us that six months ago he didn't even look at blogs - now he regards them as an essential part of his day and he thinks they are making newspapers examine how they operate. Apparently his colleagues in the production team thought our discussion was one of the most lively they have had on the programme for some time. I will, however, forgive those of you who would rather sleep than get up and watch TV at that time of the morning!I wonder what the Sunday newspapers will have in store tomorrow. I have to say I haven't picked up anything startling. Which probably means something big will happen!
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Ooh, that should be good. Thanks for the heads up, and thank God for sky plus. :)
Hopefully all this will encourage more folk to have a go at blogging. Who knows what other talent will emerge?
Go for it citizens, let's hear your voices.
My money is more on Prescott in tomorrow's papers. If he isn't gonna jump, the paper's seemed determined to push him (and it's a lot to push!)
All I know is, it's beytween 6 & 7am. It won't be right at the beginning though.
The major difference between Blog and print pundits/ columists is the interaction with the readers, it's this interaction which I tend to think upsets the print media guys.
For example last Friday's Sky News Hour the Sun Columnist and TalkSport chat show hosts got into a debate about how to prevent young Muslim men becoming radicalised with Una King and a Muslim journalist whose name I sadly can't remember.
My point here is that although I like Gaunts radio show his answer to this particular problem is that community need to do more. However, when called on this by Una and Co. it became apparent that he knew next to nothing about actually was going on in the Muslim Community or indeed he had any idea what the core issues where. He got badly spanked.
At lot of this pundits are worried that if their columns had Blog style comments under them they'd mostly look pretty stupid.
Do alienated white kids have to blow themselves up on The Tube to get anyone to pay attention ?
Has it percolated through to the Westminster-BBC Nexus that a very great number of people in this country are very very alienated.............but have not yet reached the stage of indiscriminately murdering people around them..............this is nothing to do with the Church of England preaching more to do with rationality amid the native populace who are less self-centred than personality disordered Muslim deadbeats like those on 7th July
"Do alienated white kids have to blow themselves up on The Tube to get anyone to pay attention ?"
Weren't the IRA predominantly white men? Maybe like Gaunt you think they weren't as bad because they didn't kill themselves in the process of shredding others.
I genuinely fear for the future of newspapers. With the ever decreasing costs of computers and internet connection rates, plus the shrinking size of laptops, the next generation will have little incentive to put damp thumb to paper.
The ease with which anyone can comment on news stories now is indeed tantalizing and hard to ignore. The question is whether this is merely a temporary phenomenon or a permanent one. I would say the latter.
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