Charlie Brooker: How To Report The News

2:03 pm EST January 28th, 2010 | Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Hilarious deconstruction. (via)

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5 Responses to “Charlie Brooker: How To Report The News”

  1. White Whale says:
    January 28, 2010 at 5:11 pm

    Hilarious.:)

  2. Rex Mundane says:
    January 28, 2010 at 5:41 pm

    Heres another one from Brooker’s previous season.

  3. Hominid Views » Blog Archive » Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza! says:
    January 30, 2010 at 2:59 am

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  4. bryan says:
    January 30, 2010 at 11:22 am

    His screenwipe, and his one off gameswipe (about video games) are also good.

  5. Ian Aspin says:
    February 4, 2010 at 6:10 am

    Having worked as a TV news reporter I found Charlie’s piece very amusing – some of us have long believed reporting like this is a rubbish way to do things!

    But even if a journalist wants to tell stories in a more authentic and engaging way, the constraints of the so-called “house style” in many news organisations make it difficult to achieve.

    What’s needed is a massive culture shift and a complete re-think of what we understand quality broadcast news reporting is.

    And guess what? That’s exactly what’s happening, though you’d never believe it from what we’re still mostly seeing on TV.

    Anyway, the new digital technologies, and shake up of “old school/old mainstream” journalism means new platforms and styles of “news” storytelling can now emerge.

    Let’s hope fresh and appropriate ways of funding appear too, so we can kill off this dreadful formulaic reporting and delivery, and clear the way for more natural and interesting ways to treat stories and content.

    Much love,

    Ian Aspin. http://www.twitter.com/ianaspin