The Prez, the PM, the King, and ITN and me
Friday morning, rolling thunder wakes us up for breakfast, and the top news of the aggregated day, Koizumi is in the USA, headed for Graceland …
Mr Bush joked: “Officially, he’s here to see the president, but I know the highlight of his visit will be paying his respects to the King.”
[ Amazing Graceland for world leaders ]
But that’s not really news, is it? No, the news is that this news comes to me via the UK, on an RSS feed from ITN, the news wing of ITV (same folks who brought you Supercar and the Thunderbirds).
So, May asks, “Why are so many of our news items about UK entertainment gossip?” and the hard truth of that is partially because ITN, as the world’s largest news agency, does tend to also cover a fair bit of world ground, but far more than that, ITN provides a clean well-lit display, a fair re-use license, the editor-email address is actually read and ITV delivers the goods in real HTML, just the way Tim envisioned it, easy, portable, flexible, unencumbered by any deadweight AJaX, deadbeat delusions of ‘Design’ or nightmare labrynthical CSS.
