}

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Weekend Diversion: How to report the news



I saw this over at Joe.My.God. and thought it was hilarious—because it’s so true. The clichéd boilerplate techniques Charlie Brooker parodies are used in TV news from around the world, but this really points out how silly and empty many of them are. Keep this video in mind the next time you watch TV news.

2 comments:

Roger Owen Green said...

Don't remember the beheading part, but the rest is spot-on.

Arthur Schenck said...

They do the beheading a lot on British news and NZ/Australian news.