There are newspapers who have been at the Leveson Inquiry, and there's the Guardian. Now, critics might say that the Guardian would be prepared to liveblog the opening of a (classy) bag of sweets if there was traffic in it. But we were there, every day, at Leveson too – liveblogging everybody who mattered, and even a few people who didn't.
All of which raises the inevitable question – who topped the Leveson pops? Well if this list is to go by, these are the Guardian's top 10 celebrities. Or something like that:
1. Rebekah Brooks – from Peter Pan collars to lol-gate texts
2. Jeremy Hunt – the man who didn't resign
3. Paul McMullan – would you like to see my picture of Carla Bruni, Mr Barr?
4. George Osborne and Gordon Brown – from inner rage to outer nonchalance
5. JK Rowling, Sienna Miller and Max Mosley – pap pictures and covert videos
6. David Cameron – "we're all in this together"
7. Steve Coogan – I'm Stephen John Coogan
8. Rupert Murdoch day one – the myth, the mogul, the memories
9. Charlotte Church, Anne Diamond, Chris Jefferies – hitting the high notes
10. James Murdoch – the glasses, the emails, the hair
Surprised? Anybody who knows internet traffic will know that Rebekah Brooks is well followed online. Hunt's position reflects the importance of his "will he go or won't he" evidence. Paul McMullan may not have been famous, but the former Screws man was just far too much fun. And as for those who didn't make it, well Tony Blair hasn't been prime minister for years, Hugh Grant's movies aren't that good, and as for Paul Dacre or Piers Morgan? Well, there' s just no respect.
It would be rude to say who was bottom of the 70 liveblogs, but it's fair to say that regulators did very badly, which doesn't bode well for the PCC – old or new.
But to give an idea of the popularity of the Leveson liveblogs, there were more readers of the Cameron liveblog than either of those accompaying yesterday's Euro 2012 football matches. The blog was also three times more popular, roughly, than the next piece of traditionally written David Cameron-related news. For anybody following the evolution of the form, it's worth repeating that it represents is a revolution in media as significant as the arrival of 24-hour rolling news channels.
