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  • Brooker’s Newswipe series now online

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    May 3rd, 2009adminUncategorized

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    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.

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2 Responses to “Brooker’s Newswipe series now online”

  1. 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.

  2. Native, as in the offensive usage of the word, meaning simple. It’s not a blunder… unless you’re over sensitive?

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