The BBC TV show Newswipe makes hilarious fun of common, trite elements of news reports in this video, which has replaced the tickle kitten as my current favorite video:
The BBC TV show Newswipe makes hilarious fun of common, trite elements of news reports in this video, which has replaced the tickle kitten as my current favorite video:
Comments 13
lex — February 11, 2010
Saw this the other week. Around the same time as that wicked "how to write an incendiary blog post". metameta :)
Isn't he brilliant.
Simone — February 11, 2010
AMAZING. And so true.
DragonL0rd132 — February 11, 2010
okay... for
1 Brillant and
2 nothing can replace tickle kitten!
Kristyn — February 11, 2010
Yep, this is brilliant
captain crab — February 11, 2010
That's just like Sugar Frosted Flakes!
Rachel — February 11, 2010
That was epic
Allie — February 11, 2010
oh my gosh, i love it!!
Kristi — February 12, 2010
Amazing. This is my new favorite video.
ms.bec — February 12, 2010
too funny...
ALSO new fave video
Victor — February 12, 2010
Awesome. Totally works for Brazilian news reports as well.
JenniferRuth — February 12, 2010
If you guys liked this then you really should watch Charlie Brooker's Newswipe on the BBC iPlayer!
Ian — February 12, 2010
As a recent journalism school graduate, I found this especially hilarious (and true). So many of the cliches he shows are things I was told were good for keeping the audience's attention, except if every one does them, it loses this effect completely.
So good I wrote a post about it on my own blog:
http://tentrentingonmars.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-journalistic-cliches-start.html
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