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  1. Wed, 10-12-2011, 03:47 AM #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by Animeniax View Post
    I hate reading/hearing the news, especially local news. The reporters trump up the stories to be so sensational and make you feel as shitty as possible about people and the world. Local news is worse, since you find out your neighbors are scum and evil shit is happening all around you. I guess it's my fault for wanting to bury my head in the sand and not know about all the evil shit going on in the world.
    Charlie Brooker did a bit on this on his Newswipe show:

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    Quote Originally Posted by XanBcoo View Post
    Charlie Brooker did a bit on this on his Newswipe show:
    That is brilliant! I don't think I'll be able to see a news report without thinking of it ever again. Thanks for posting it.


    “For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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    Quote Originally Posted by Animeniax View Post
    That is brilliant! I don't think I'll be able to see a news report without thinking of it ever again. Thanks for posting it.
    I particularly liked his matrix part. His way of talking demonstrated perfectly that you can talk about shit and still make it sound like a news report. (wait, or does talking about shit make it a news report? )

    I find Australian news in general to be better than this though. They mostly report facts/happenings without colouring it like the example here. You'll more likely find this in things like Today Tonight or A Current Affair - where they're expected to add commentary.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Animeniax View Post
    That is brilliant! I don't think I'll be able to see a news report without thinking of it ever again. Thanks for posting it.
    Watch the entire series. It's called Newswipe. He does a really good segment about American media as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aEk864YrKw

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