I don’t have a TV in my home in San Francisco, so the only time when I get any time with the tube is at my parents’ home in Colorado. Usually, I get all my news from blogs and other independent media sources (I rarely surf CNN.com) Needless to say, it’s always a very surreal experience actually watching CNN on TV.
What I find most amusing is that there are actually Blog Reporters on the CNN team. I saw this for the first time this morning when they did their blog segment, which gives an overview of notable blogs (in this case, ones that are relevant to the London bombings). They surfed to many of the sites I was looking at yesterday when the tragedy occured. I almost felt like the mainstream media were intruding into my space–it’s very weird to see familiar webpages on the TV. Also, they were shooting computer screens directly, and not screen capturing it. This is awkward at best–providing a low quality view of the webpages. They even had to pan around to see the whole webpage! It’s absolutely an awful way to convey the wealth of information in the blogosphere.