Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe on television news
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Series four of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe is currently screening in the UK. Screenwipe is a bit like Eating Media Lunch, only because it's the BBC, it has a slightly higher low budget.
In this episode, Brooker took a look at television news, including the modern phenomenon of the 24-hour news channels who need to find stuff to occupy all that time.
And amid the humour and anger is a short made by Adam Curtis ("The Power of Nightmares") about TV reporters over the ages.
It's based around British news, but there's a lot New Zealand TV viewers can get from it.
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Watched this last night -- it's brilliant.
Interestingly, Steve Maharey used Charlie Brooker in his speech to the recent digital broadcasting conference in Wellington.
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it's brilliant
Agreed.
With an excellent, important thing missing from far too much current affairs television.
A Thesis
Oh, and length.
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Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn column for the Guardian is hilarious. You can practically taste the bile...angry, angry man. But damn funny.
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If you haven't already come across it, Brass Eye is also worth a look for some good satire:
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Season 4 of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe has just started.
It is availablbe on BBC's iPlayer.
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Oh brilliant! On problem - the BBC's iPlayer is geofenced to exclude anyone outside the UK. I'll have to see if my friends in England can video it for me.
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Here's a link to a series 4 episode examining (perhaps "mocking" is more accurate description) the news media.
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BTW, that's the same episode that I'm talking about right at the top of this thread. (Only the YouTube clips I linked to back then then have been removed now. It's a great episode, though!)
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