A blog is absolutely horrible. It is the worst kind of journalism you can imagine. There's no focus nor control. Actually, it's not a newspaper at all, it's a diary.
Seriously, no blog.
Tom,
please make an effort to separate the common modern
content of blogs from the blog
format.
The newspapers as they existed back in the day were, in fact, all pretty much blogs in their format.
I think this extension (with the proper configuration) sounds like it's an excellent way to make running a BM-Wiki newspaper much smoother and easier.