Charlie Brooker's How to Report the News - Newswipe - BBC

BBC · 2.5M views · 2010-02-05 · 2:03

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Overview

A short satirical segment from Charlie Brooker's Newswipe that lampoons the formulaic conventions of television news reporting, from stock shots to filler street interviews and news-speak.

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HN invokes it as the best spoof of how news is formulaically produced, often when discussing media quality or automated news.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2013–2025

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Satire & parody Media, journalism & propaganda

What people said

chx · 2023-06 · Strong recommendation
Charlie Brooker is fantastic: On how news is reported [VIDEO] On how mass shooting is reported and about the saturation [LINK]
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hgomersall · 2025-02 · Recommendation
Most mainstream documentaries are full of fluff. You can generally read the transcript of a half hour programme in a couple of minutes. I thought Charlie Brooker might have a useful segment on it, but all I could find were the not-quite-on-point, but nevertheless excellent two related segments below: [LINK] [VIDEO]
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cirrus-clouds · 2018-04 · Recommendation
Charlie Brooker did an excellent spoof video of the way news is reported. The video is 8 years old (made in 2010) but it still rings true today: How to report the news: [VIDEO] Every TV news report on the economy in one: [LINK]
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