Originally one of four correspondents who filmed segments from remote locations in the style of network news field reporters, Colbert was referred to as "the new guy" on-air for his first two years on the show, during which time Craig Kilborn served as host.
Does a Long Island newspaper, a television station ranked No. 5 locally (albeit one that is gaining in the morning news field) and a Web site in development (it owns the domain name nynewsday.com) really count?
But the BBC needs to accept that it must avoid monopolising the news field and, in so doing, has to realise that perception in this matter is as important as reality.
"He said getting me to interview Damien Hirst was like getting Coco the Clown to read the news," Fielding says now. "But he'd not seen the programme, he didn't know I'd got an MA in art, that I've had two exhibitions, I've shown my stuff at Saatchi's.
Still they spent about two weeks on the story, a pretty long time in the news field.
While it was always fun to get alerts for breaking news, Field Trip notifications about cool stuff around you and use Glass's built-in navigation tool, the field is now wide open for way more interesting applications.
But in order for platforms like Live Stream, UStream, YouTube Live to effectively expedite news field reporting, the backend, or CMS, must talk to all those third party services.
And what if that platform accepted high-quality news field reports without the journalist having to master a complicated back-end CMS?
I worked as a TV news field camera person, as a motion picture camera person, as a marketing manager for architects, and now as an electrician.
It may not seem like much, but the top of the cable news field has been extremely stable -- and if Maddow were to continue creeping up the list, it would mean a real sea change.
