In the second episode of the second series (AKA season) of Newswipe, host, journalist and humorist Charlie Brooker explains to the viewer just how complicated a typical news segment really is to produce.
“It starts here,” says Booker, “with a lackluster establishing shot of a significant location. Next, a walky-talky preamble from the auteur, pacing steadily towards the lens, punctuating every other sentence with a hand gesture, and ignoring all the prigs milling around him like he’s gliding through the [censored] Matrix, before coming to a halt and posing a question: ‘What comes next?’”
Check out the video to find out:
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