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It's sucking my will to live!!!


I love Charlie Brooker. I love Newswipe.

Thought I would get that out of the way...

The show has become one of the most depressing things on the television these days. I cant really remember feeling the same way last season so Im wondering if this is just me or if others are getting the same feelings... The points he makes during the shows are all spot on and its great that somebody is picking them out and disecting them but christ, the news industry is the most despicable, dishonest, immoral and superficial bastard of an industry ever :(

I just finish watching the shows thinking that surely they cant get awawy with what they do, surely people wont keep watching the news if its so biased and ridiculous, surely someone is going to do something about it...but no :(

Im thinking they need to start showing ab episode of screenwipe after every episode in order to cheer me up.

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This is the reason why i think it is perfect study material for Journalism students. It plainly states what is so wrong with todays media.

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It's simply following in the great tradition of such programs. Take the Daily Show in the US - often the humour is hit and miss, but it manages to consistently identify idiocy and hypocrisy.

And you find Screenwipe cheerier? The piece they did about how being a success in television saps all creativity and hope, leaving you a hollow shell that's impossible to differentiate from a whore was one of the most horrifying things I've ever watched (Despite it being exaggerated satire).

Sayonara, not to be confused with cyanide, which is, of course, goodbye in any language.

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