ITT an open and frank discussion about the journalist, critic and polemecist Charlie Brooker

> Am I right in assuming you'll have an Athens login?

you are below average in your assumptive powers 8) but i have read the preciseseses and see what you mean.

> OK there, utopian kind dude with your seeing the best in everyone ;)

you have this wrong as well, as anyone here at work will tell you. i just know that i can happily ignore my own severe character flaws and focus on the good things (and, yes, often write them off as beyond my control). which i think is a common survival mechanism.

"Norwegians showed significantly less self-enhancement bias than did Americans"

go america! USA! USA! etc

you have this wrong as well

Well, yeh: it's not something I'd necessarily ascribe to any ILX0r, come to think of it ;)

A few nights ago i had an amazing dream where i was in bed with Charlie Brooker. He kept trying to go down on me, but i was too shy so i kept clamping my legs together so he couldn't get at me. He was rather annoyed. To try and appease him i asked him what he wanted me to do to him, he said he wanted 'a veggie' and i pretended to know what that meant. But i never found out because he started taking cocaine from a really weird apparatus. Then i spilt some on a pillow, and he was annoyed just because i made a mess, which was odd because we were at my house.

Surprised you're still having those dreams now Enrique and Louis are back.

lol gays

lol facebook notes of girls you've had full sex in cinemas with

include me out

lol facebook notes of girls you've had full sex in cinemas with

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lol although she defriended me around 18 months ago she only quit the Mondeo Pop group about 10 weeks back.

shit i forgot to quit that group

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Journalist, critic and polemecist Charlie Brooker

is his show now airing on bbc2 just a repeat of the bbc3(4?) episodes? or does it include new bits about the week's tv?

It was a repeat, I think.

Also, Brooker is the latest celebrity twit on twitter - http://twitter.com/charltonbrooker

Officially adopting nowtrage. Brilliant.

Am I crazy, or do Brooker and Lawrence Fishburne look weirdly similar?

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I can see that, yeah.

this is kinda pony

Good things: Johann Johannson; Nick Davies

Mediocre things: pretty much all the rest of it.

Watchable but hardly unmissable.

The bit in the pilot about the singing stand-in girl at the Chinese Olympic opening ceremony was hilariously unbroadcastable.

Problem with doing a weekly British version of the Daily Show is he's too busy trying to bring in big huge stories and tell every detail, and in process, forgets jokes.

really unfunny, badly presented, not even v cutting and Brit news is way ripe for this too.

the worst part is the patronising "explanations" which are all way too subject to opinion anyway, eg that random talking head discussing the Brit guys extradition.

Also, explaining to BBC4 viewers what's going on with the economy = not really understanding your audience.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jks6r/Newswipe_Episode_2/

The Jade bit was spot on, I thought.

Very much so, properly excellent. This series is finding its way a bit but shows some promise.

Patchy, but the Mary, Mungo and Midge joke was one of the funniest things I've seen this year.

yes.

adam curtis bit was some bleak shit

is that on the most recent or the week before? have not bothered with this since ep one but im always interesting to see ad-curt do his thing.

this week's

xpost Curtis was on last night, now available on iplayer and youtube.

sweet

The last two have been a lot better than the first one.

the adam curtis section was uncomfortable and brilliant. hope he spins that out into a few doc series, does anyone know what he's working on at the moment?

Popbitch

does anyone know what he's working on at the moment?

According to his Twitterings that'd be, umm, tonight's Newswipe :)

Oh, shit, you meant Curtis. Didn't read that properly at all, sorry.

that curtis bit be like damn.

and it does feel like an excerpt from something bigger, doesn't it? not sure every step of his argument is convincing* but if fleshed out...

*don't see the link between the biafra campaign and the counter-culture. probably the most prominent campaigners were right-wingers like frederick forsyth, no hippie he. (the labour government was culpable in ways i can't recall.)

Great piece, but the hippie-bashing seemed a bit knee-jerk - there was a lot of political analysis going on then. I think what he's really getting at is a model of charidee which is entirely divorced from politics.

xxpost

And the answer, incidentally, is "haven't a clue; sorry!"

I liked the Curtis thing last week, incidentally, but the whole notion that "emotive" journalism is a post-Diana thing is absolute bullshit: I was being taught to "make the reader bleed" (yes, that was exactly how it was put) long before that. As has been the case with a couple of Brooker's own Newswipe pieces: it was interesting and thought-provoking, and better than 99% of the fucking shit that's put out there -- but occasionally a little over-simplistic; or, rather, throwing in some unnecessary simplistic point as if, y'know, we couldn't concentrate properly otherwise. (There was a really good example of this earlier in the series but I'm fucked if I can remember exactly what it was ... it might come back to me.)

*don't see the link between the biafra campaign and the counter-culture

Yes, that seemed a little glossed-over. Then again: I have a feeling that the format might impose awkward demands on both Brooker and his contributors (no evidence for that; just based on the fact I think the BBC is packed full of useless cunts).

Tim Key, by the way: can he fuck off, or what?

he is to an adult what Ronnie Corbett chair bits were to a kid (well me at least)

Corbett's monologues were gold, you were supposed to turn off during the Miss Elaine Paige song.

i was too transfixed by her radiant beauty

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L-R: Paige, Corbett, David Frost

this from week before last was good too

ad-curt was right about the way they report bad shit in the less developed world. i was watching something about thailand (iirc) the other night on the c4 news and, although it was five minutes long or so, they never explained what was behind it. just people be protesting, police be hitting them. JUST LIKE IN ZANU-LABOUR BRITAIN KIDS.

enjoyed and laughed a lot at this week's even tho it's all so horrible. i guess the show aims to instil this sense of smugness/superiority in viewers because they recognise how awful news media is, offsetting the depression which would otherwise make it unwatchable. maybe it should be more good-natured and constructive ultimately tho?

Key always brings the light titters in our house.

I've only seen the first Newswipe and the most recent one, but has it always used as much background music? Initially I thought it weas just for effect (Gordon's 'party') but it was everywhere and really disctracting. Not sure I remember Screenwipe using as much. I realise I sound likea Points Of View blowhard, but the point remains.

Always Good choices though. Johann Johansson, IBM 1401, A User's Manual!

And lovely snatches (pun intended) of (Cunts Are Still) Running The World at opportune points in the last one.