Charlie Brooker’s How to Report the News

Will Truman

Will Truman is the Editor-in-Chief of Ordinary Times. He is also on Twitter.

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9 Responses

  1. greginak says:

    This is good. What is exceptional is how well it translates to the US.Report

    • LeeEsq in reply to greginak says:

      I think there is a standard template for TV news in all English speaking countries. Probably more cars in America and Australia than the UK, Ireland, Canada, and New Zealand though.Report

  2. Damon says:

    I’ve seen this “report” hundreds of times. It’s almost as if they are following a script……Report

  3. The very last local news show I watched, many, many years ago, had a segment about a potential AIDS vaccine. It followed this script almost exactly, including stock footage of a chem lab and mai-in-the-street interviews asking what people thought about a vaccine (consensus: good thing.)Report

  4. Rufus F. says:

    I do think the news could use more lighthouse keepers being decapitated by laser beams.Report