Congratulations to Nine, Hutchy and the Footy Classified team for listening to my idea!

One of the great segments on Footy Classified is the “Beat the Press” Segment. I think it is great that the people that have stories and questions asked of them get to ask the questions back! One thing that I put to Hutchy last year was that you sometimes could tell the segment was heavily edited and that I had a feeling with the advancements of the Web that Nine/Hutchy (who was publishing the edited show) could publish the unedited show and it would be great to watch!

This year the segment has returned and the great thing is that it is now available in its unedited form! I watched the first segment (with 3 coaches) in the edited form and then with the unedited form. I loved it! The edited form knocks out about half the recording (from 27:52 to 13:56).  Some of the stuff that came out that I thought it would is that some questions that look one way when edited make more sense when watched unedited. Just one example of this is Mark Williams question about how the Jornos stay informed. The feel of that question totally changed when you heard it in the full context!

So congratulations to Nine and Hutchy (who gets the net and I hope that he and Eddie are pushing Nine with there web offerings) for doing this and I would love to see them expand it to other things like the interviews that they do.

What do you think? Do you see value in this extra edition?

Molly

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