Charlie Brooker's Newswipe 2010

[krakhead]

First episode and already awesome! :D And now includes Doug Stanhope! I may wee! :D

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
Charlie looks at shock tactics in the media.

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Dan Gardner looks at news bosses picking stories and Charlie comments on the coverage of the attempted plane bombing over xmas.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
Tim Key with a poem, The Week In Bullshit, Doug Stanhope - Voice Of America, SNOW!

[seize_the_stars]

I recomend watching the latest newswipe. Bloody brilliant.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qbyth/Newswipe_Series_2_Episode_2/



Its the only thing on telly at the mo. Mr Brooker is a legend

[krakhead]

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.Charlie looks at the different types of news that can be used in quiet periods and Tim Key reads another poem.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.More types of news, Charlie gives an example of a report and Heather Brooke looks at sources.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.The Week In Bullshit, more types of filler news and Doug Stanhope shares his view on the late night shows.

[krakhead]

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
Charlie looks at how the media have dealt with the Haiti crisis.

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Marina Hyde looks at celebrity involvement in causes, Charlie looks at celebrities in the media in general and reviews Live From Studio Five.

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The Week In Bullshit including the media reporting terror threats and the iPad, and Doug Stanhope looks at human interest stories.

[romas]

It's great :)

[Siva]

Thanky :)

[krakhead]

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
Charlie looks at politicians in the media.

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A look at party political broadcasts and Adam Curtis looks at the influence of Nixon

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The Week In Bullshit includes Toyota and Jordan, while Doug Stanhope looks at the environment

[krakhead]

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
Charlie looks at live broadcasting and Doug Stanhope gives his view on having your say

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Charlie looks at the John Terry saga and the Week in Bullshit deals with animal cruelty

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
Tim Key with a poem about politics and Charlie looks at more on the expenses scandal

[krakhead]

Episode 6 was a 'best of' compilation and therefore a swizz! :D

[hagbard_celine]

Hilarious!:D:D Thanks for posting, KH.

[krakhead]

bump :D

[guuna]

I'm afraid I find Charlie Brooker very creepy.

Got 'Shill' written all over him.

[bruiseviolet]

I'm afraid I find Charlie Brooker very creepy.

Got 'Shill' written all over him.

Nah, I tend to disagree.

Someone who slams the media to the degree that Charlie does cannot be a shill. Plus, look at stuff like Nathan Barley, TV go home and other stuff he did before he became recognised. I'm actually surprised the BBC moved him to BBC2. I suppose that's something to question.

I will say his articles have been a bit weak lately though and he does tend to change his opinion of things (especially technology) if someone gives him one for free. Maybe one too many wank jokes.

He's still fucking funny though.

[bruiseviolet]

New series of You Have Been Watching on Channel 4 next Thursday. :)

[guuna]

Nah, I tend to disagree.

Someone who slams the media to the degree that Charlie does cannot be a shill. Plus, look at stuff like Nathan Barley, TV go home and other stuff he did before he became recognised. I'm actually surprised the BBC moved him to BBC2. I suppose that's something to question.

I will say his articles have been a bit weak lately though and he does tend to change his opinion of things (especially technology) if someone gives him one for free. Maybe one too many wank jokes.

He's still fucking funny though.

I'm sure he is actually a very clever fellow, ans some of his material is good.

[dreamweaver]

I recomend watching the latest newswipe. Bloody brilliant.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qbyth/Newswipe_Series_2_Episode_2/



Its the only thing on telly at the mo. Mr Brooker is a legend

The same legend gave this review of Edge TV:


Ask anyone with a Sky box: the problem with the multi-channel universe is how samey it all is. Hundreds of stations pumping out the same palliative mulch.

But every so often a new start-up channel emerges with a leftfield agenda. It's always worth tuning in once, just for the surprise value. There was Isle Of Wight TV, which seems to have vanished now. And SoundTV, which consisted of old-school variety and interviews with Richard Digance. That's gone too. These rogue stations don't tend to last long.

Well here's a new one: Edge Media TV (Sky Channel 200), "a platform for alternative and suppressed viewpoints". In other words, it's chock-full of conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theorists need to believe their viewpoints are being suppressed, rather than, say, assessed and dismissed as ropey and ludicrous. Which makes a channel devoted to spreading these viewpoints a bit of a paradox. If "the system" was even 1% as efficient and sinister as they believe, their station wouldn't exist.

But it does, broadcasting programmes with titles like Question Everything and Hidden Agenda, and a talkshow called Esoteria, which according to the host is "a SHOW, not a PROGRAMME - we aim to SHOW you alternative viewpoints rather than PROGRAM you to accept a particular point of view". He must be proud of that bit of mind-expanding wordplay because he repeats it quite a lot. A bit like he's programming you, actually.

And herein lies the tragedy. The other day I tuned in to Eerie Investigations, in which the host, a strangely simpering woman with Eerie Investigations printed on her T-shirt, conducted vox-pop interviews with people at an anti-ID card rally. There are a thousand valid reasons for opposing ID cards and questioning everything the government does, but instead both the host and her interviewees spent most of their time talking about how we're all going to have microchips planted in our heads as part of the New World Order (which, naturally, orchestrated the 9/11 attacks), intermittently breaking from this theme to dismiss the general public as idiotic, docile sheep with such towering self-assurance it made you actively wonder whether labouring under a fascist police state in which government computers monitored your dreams and doled out electric shocks each time you had a subversive thought would be preferable to living in freedom alongside these massive wankers.

Maybe "wankers" is a bit harsh. These are essentially clever people gone wrong. Having learned to mistrust the powers that be, they take a giant leap, mistaking bossiness and incompetence for ultra-organised and sinister plotting - and then compound the error by mistaking themselves for journalists or scientists. The result is a depressing descent into fairytales backed with risible "evidence"; fairytales told with the defensive assertion that anyone who doesn't believe them is a shill or a sheep.

Consider Ludicrous Diversion, an Edge Media documentary which implies the 7/7 bombers weren't really bombers at all, but patsies framed by "the system". Rather than offering any hard evidence for this startling claim, it highlights minor anomalies in the official version of events, the police's reluctance to release CCTV footage, and references to past miscarriages of justice such as the Guildford Four, then expects the viewer to add two and two to make 25. It's like a lazy and badly made Power Of Nightmares, convincing only to the eagerly paranoid.

In-between the programmes, there are adverts for Cillit Bang (whose exact role in the New World Order has yet to be established) and a seven-hour - yes, SEVEN HOUR - "DVD presentation" from David Icke, in which he tells the viewer how the world really works. And presumably apologises for not employing an editor.

In summary: it's bunkum. But then I would say that, wouldn't I? I'm a mainstream media shill. They've got to me already. And now they're coming for YOU.

[iwant_tobreak_free]

The same legend gave this review of Edge TV:


Ask anyone with a Sky box: the problem with the multi-channel universe is how samey it all is. Hundreds of stations pumping out the same palliative mulch.

But every so often a new start-up channel emerges with a leftfield agenda. It's always worth tuning in once, just for the surprise value. There was Isle Of Wight TV, which seems to have vanished now. And SoundTV, which consisted of old-school variety and interviews with Richard Digance. That's gone too. These rogue stations don't tend to last long.

Well here's a new one: Edge Media TV (Sky Channel 200), "a platform for alternative and suppressed viewpoints". In other words, it's chock-full of conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theorists need to believe their viewpoints are being suppressed, rather than, say, assessed and dismissed as ropey and ludicrous. Which makes a channel devoted to spreading these viewpoints a bit of a paradox. If "the system" was even 1% as efficient and sinister as they believe, their station wouldn't exist.

But it does, broadcasting programmes with titles like Question Everything and Hidden Agenda, and a talkshow called Esoteria, which according to the host is "a SHOW, not a PROGRAMME - we aim to SHOW you alternative viewpoints rather than PROGRAM you to accept a particular point of view". He must be proud of that bit of mind-expanding wordplay because he repeats it quite a lot. A bit like he's programming you, actually.

And herein lies the tragedy. The other day I tuned in to Eerie Investigations, in which the host, a strangely simpering woman with Eerie Investigations printed on her T-shirt, conducted vox-pop interviews with people at an anti-ID card rally. There are a thousand valid reasons for opposing ID cards and questioning everything the government does, but instead both the host and her interviewees spent most of their time talking about how we're all going to have microchips planted in our heads as part of the New World Order (which, naturally, orchestrated the 9/11 attacks), intermittently breaking from this theme to dismiss the general public as idiotic, docile sheep with such towering self-assurance it made you actively wonder whether labouring under a fascist police state in which government computers monitored your dreams and doled out electric shocks each time you had a subversive thought would be preferable to living in freedom alongside these massive wankers.

Maybe "wankers" is a bit harsh. These are essentially clever people gone wrong. Having learned to mistrust the powers that be, they take a giant leap, mistaking bossiness and incompetence for ultra-organised and sinister plotting - and then compound the error by mistaking themselves for journalists or scientists. The result is a depressing descent into fairytales backed with risible "evidence"; fairytales told with the defensive assertion that anyone who doesn't believe them is a shill or a sheep.

Consider Ludicrous Diversion, an Edge Media documentary which implies the 7/7 bombers weren't really bombers at all, but patsies framed by "the system". Rather than offering any hard evidence for this startling claim, it highlights minor anomalies in the official version of events, the police's reluctance to release CCTV footage, and references to past miscarriages of justice such as the Guildford Four, then expects the viewer to add two and two to make 25. It's like a lazy and badly made Power Of Nightmares, convincing only to the eagerly paranoid.

In-between the programmes, there are adverts for Cillit Bang (whose exact role in the New World Order has yet to be established) and a seven-hour - yes, SEVEN HOUR - "DVD presentation" from David Icke, in which he tells the viewer how the world really works. And presumably apologises for not employing an editor.

In summary: it's bunkum. But then I would say that, wouldn't I? I'm a mainstream media shill. They've got to me already. And now they're coming for YOU.

convincing!

having read that theres no real reason for me to be here!

bye everyone!!

:p

[bruiseviolet]

I'd like to know what he thinks of "conspiracy theories" now actually. I think he might eat his words a little bit regardless of whether he thinks people are wankers or "clever people gone wrong".

Some of his articles have annoyed me recently, but I still think newswipe is about as good as you're going to get in main telly.

[bruiseviolet]

I'd like to know what he thinks of "conspiracy theories" now actually. I think he might eat his words a little bit regardless of whether he thinks people are wankers or "clever people gone wrong".

Some of his articles have annoyed me recently, but I still think newswipe is about as good as you're going to get in main telly.

*Edit: Seems to be pro Clegg. http://twitter.com/charltonbrooker