How to report the news

I love Charlie Brooker, he’s a bullshit free journalist who works for both the BBC and The Guardian. His television work includes Screenwipe and Newswipe, both of which are highly regarded on BBC Four and are usually top of the BBC iPlayer soon after they’re aired. Charlie doesn’t patronise the viewer or act as conspiracy theorist about why the news and television media are such bastards; he just tells you like it is and he’s jolly funny and good at it to.

Anyway, the reason why I bring him up is because for AS Level Media Studies we have to create a news report; as soon as this project was given to us I instantly thought of the perfect example of a generic news report. In episode two of season two of Newswipe, Charlie did a bit on how a news report is put together by reconstructing one himself while he was explaining it; it’s now startlingly apparent how copy and paste news reports seem to be now-a-days.

So below you’ll find the video in question; it’s brilliant, he’s brilliant, enjoy.

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Steven, Administrator.