Oscars log really a blog?

BBC News isn't known as a hotbed of blogging but Helen Bushby's very entertaining "Reporter's Log" of the Oscars could have been a blog. The main difference is that her reports look as though they were edited and put on the site y the BBC's Web staff, rather than being posted directly by the reporter. However, it does seem to me that this is a crucial difference. Even if the words remain the same, you get more immediacy if the reporter posts directly to the audience -- and the frisson that comes from the increased risk....