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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You can find here a 33 minutes video of Marina Hyde interviewing Charlie Brooker.
It’s definitely worth watching and gives a funny look into how people from the entertainment industry, interact with public’s criticism thanks to the internet.
Some people think we’re now more rude and stupid, but to be honest I think the internet is only doing what medicine has done for us.
Years ago you would have died of anything. Now thanks to medicine we can live longer, but that highlights problems that normally would have killed people without the treatment. So are we more sick? No, the people who get sick live to tell us about it, that’s all (probably, perhaps, maybe)
The same thing with stupidity, are we more stupid? No, the people who are stupid can demonstrate it on the internet.
This morning’s column by Charlie Brooker exposes one of the most feared concepts we can think of.
Fear of what we don’t know.
The ‘rant’ explains the oil-trading company Trafigura attempt to silent the newspaper Guardian and stop them from talking about Trafigura’s toxic waste dumping methods.
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It is an excellent reading and a herculean effort of a column for a Monday morning.
I would like to thank holdingonfortomorrow for the great concept that is a ‘Shotgun of Truth’
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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