I genuinely think the 'McCann' piece is the best thing he has ever done, and fulfils the promise that has always been evident behind the shouting and cartoon anger. It clearly works better for being done in a more controlled fashion.
The Sky reporter sat behind the parents on the plane should be shot.
Fucking vile.
The brilliant piece by Adam Curtis on the fall of the tv reporter should also be flagged up....fantastic stuff.
Thanks for putting me on to this Paul, I've been enjoying a lot of Charlie Brooker clips on YouTube since this post.
As well as being laugh out loud funny, I find a lot of his reporting to be genuinely insightful.
I haven't really followed UK TV since the late 90s; I assume X-Factor is like Pop Idol 2.0? Also, oh my God the Music Channels rant is awesome.
Never saw the X-Factor before today. You want to know what's funny, not only does it resemble a Nazi rally, it precisely resembles the parody of a Nazi rally from Pink Floyd's The Wall. Exact same silly "X" salute with the crossed forearms. I guess most of these kids never went through the typical Floyd phase when they were teenagers.
I'd give a nickel to see somebody train the same kind of spotlight on American television. Lordey, what he could do with the Oprah Winfrey show alone...
The X-Factor is a shameless Pop Idol clone, conceived (in the loosest possible sense) by Simon Cowell. The point of distinction, if you can call it that, is that each judge doubles as a mentor to some of the acts, and that groups are allowed to enter. But essentially, it's Pop Idol.
The Adam Curtis bit could have done with being expanded upon. He often gets accused of making sweeping claims and then not backing them up properly, and summing up decades of newsreading in five minutes was practically proving that point. Or perhaps I'm only saying that because I'd love to see another hour or three of Curtisiana on BBC2. It might only have been a few months since The Trap, but I selfishly want more spooky shots of Tony Blair looking messianic while John Carpenter soundtracks bloop away in the background.
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