Neo Cro-magnon

Unlike the Afganistan and Irak wars, the war of ideas is capable of changing the future of a country.

A lot of political analysts know this, one of the reasons the Afghan war is the mess it is right now it’s due to the lack of political strategy for the aftermath. Even though unfortunately a lot of innocent people die while confronting the Taliban, it still is quite a predictable battle where the guys with bigger guns kill more people effectively. The problem is that without knowing how to clean the mess, it’s becoming quite difficult to put an end to a conflict no one really knew how to deal with in the first place.

But we’re not here to talk about the war in Afghanistan, but the war of ideas and its new victim, the BBC.

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The new series of Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe is already online.

For those familiar with the format, Charlie Brooker (incredibly smart and witty geek) evaluates the week’s news and leads a 30 minute show where apart from general mockery of News Channels and how they distort news, often offers a really interesting view on how things work in the world of television.

A sort of Daily Show with Jon Stewart but with a lower budget a more British banter.

Honestly, I always learn something.

Links, after the jump.

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Who would have thought that the second most viewed video on BBC’s iPlayer was going to be a program about video games.

Charlie Brooker on Gameswipe

Charlie Brooker, following his Newswipe and Screenwipe programs, has manged to pull a one-off show about videogames that pleases both converted and heretic.

For many years, TV and videogames have had a terrible relationship. TV shows always failed to understand how to portray videogames or people interested on them, and this new generation of gamers, can’t be bothered with TV anymore.

I’m not surprised though.

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