All six episodes of Charlie Brooker's Newswipe, made for BBC4, are now available to watch as a playlist on YouTube. While the series is UK-focused, it covers news output which makes it into the Irish market, including Sky News, BBC News, and the UK tabloids and broadsheets. As the Beeb says:
The aim of Charlie Brooker's News Wipe is to expose the inner workings of news media, just as [Brooker's] Screen Wipe does to TV in general.
The series will be a funny, thoughtful and scabrous digest of recent news events. News Wipe will take a look at the brilliant or preposterous way the news is presented to us.
There will also be experts on hand to pick apart certain stories and analyse the news media's obsessions.
The experts include political journalist Peter Oborne, Flat Earth News author Nick Davies, Bad Science columnist Dr Ben Goldacre, and documentary maker Adam Curtis.
A WARNING: Those who read Blurred Keys every once in a while but are so native to think the contents of this blog just show once-off media blunders will likely find Newswipe too cynical, while some of our more intellectual readers will probably find it too low brow.
A WARNING: Those who read Blurred Keys every once in a while but are so native to think the contents of this blog just show once-off media blunders will likely find Newswipe too cynical, while some of our more intellectual readers will probably find it too low brow
Native? Media blunders? Try reading what you write once in a while.
Posted by: Glen Garry | May 08, 2009 at 12:24 PM