I think within TV, the problem is cultural – is it still a story if there aren’t any obvious pictures or things to film? The need to populate stories with people and for their experiences to be at the forefront of the piece has been a long standing theme where I work, and rightly so – but I sometimes feel that there are stories which need telling which don’t necessarily need a case study to make them ‘real’ or legitimate. If one of the functions of journalism is to further our understanding of how the world really works – especially behind the scenes or underneath the surface – then a lot of TV news has to move from its self-imposed limitations otherwise it’s going to be rendered a bit obsolete by the techniques you’re blogging about, Paul .. having said that, different TV newsrooms are more open to these ideas, more progressive, than others ..