Charlie Brooker's newswipe

[Riklet]

I thought the latest one was fucking brilliant! Painfully accurate and yet hilarious at the same time.... I loved the stuff with Schroedinger's cat!

 

[DotCommunist]

better than last weeks one

 

[Sadken]

A fair bit better I thought.

It's not like what he says isn't stuff that we haven't all said ourselves, it's more like there's just nobody else like "us" on tv now.

 

[Gingerman]

Paxo's comments good to see him stickin the boot into that hypocritial,2 faced,bandwagon jumpin aul fuck Carole Malone

 

[mrsfran]

I HATE Carole Malone. Hate her. I lolled at Paxman too

I think Newswipe is my favourite programme on TV at the moment.

 

[Santino]

I enjoyed it when he called Rod Liddle a cunt.

 

[belboid]

missed last weeks, saw last nights. Most enjoyable

 

[kabbes]

A fair bit better I thought.

It's not like what he says isn't stuff that we haven't all said ourselves, it's more like there's just nobody else like "us" on tv now.

Completely 100% agree. It almost brought a tear to my eye to hear somebody actually represent me for a change.

Thank fuck for Charlie Brooker.

 

[Voley]

Yeah, he articulates my incoherent rage at the media very well. The Jade Goody piece this week was excellent.

 

[electrogirl]

I HATE Carole Malone. Hate her. I lolled at Paxman too

I think Newswipe is my favourite programme on TV at the moment.

Carol Malone is a fucking misogynist. A big bouffant haired misogynist.
Yeah that Paxman bit was brilliant.

 

[8den]

I enjoyed it when he called Rod Liddle a cunt.

It's funny cause it's true.

 

[Diamond]

I thought the stuff about how the news agenda has started to pander to the more reactionary and emotional sections of society since the Diana death was really interesting.

If the news has turned into a marketplace like any other, and if the only reliable consumers of the product are a significant minority that want to consume prurient or hysterical or self-regarding information, then we're really in the shit.

 

[Dandred]

Who's names were beeped out?

 

[catinthehat]

Brilliant. Not so much in a wow groundbreaking genius way more in a 'thank fuck someone else appears to inhabit the same planet as me' - I find it rather calming as its another human raging about the stuff I rage about. Its a bit like hearing someone speaking your language when you have been in another country for ages.

 

[Biglittlefish]

That was an awesome ep. A lot of people will be gunning for Brooker after it. The man has balls.

 

[EddyBlack]

He seems like a twat but he knows the score about telly.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

I enjoyed it when he called Rod Liddle a cunt.

That sentence alone was a year's tv license well spent for me. Laughed my arse off.

 

[nino_savatte]

Who's names were beeped out?

Billionaire party donors. I'm sure that if I did a little digging, I could find out who these people are.

 

[poului]

That sentence alone was a year's tv license well spent for me. Laughed my arse off.

He really is an utter cunt aswell. I was going to watch a youtube clip of him after the show just to confirm my dislike but decided not to purely on the grounds that it would make me feel sick for the rest of the week.

 

[Brainaddict]

Was disappointed with the first episode but the second was top-notch. Interesting take on the Jade Goody affair particularly.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

He really is an utter cunt aswell. I was going to watch a youtube clip of him after the show just to confirm my dislike but decided not to purely on the grounds that it would make me feel sick for the rest of the week.

Do you remember when that woman sent ten Rod Liddles to a bag of shit's workplace? Oh wait, it was the other way round. Sorry I get the two mixed up.

She claimed Liddle had already had a two-year affair some time ago but begged her forgiveness, which she gave. She wrote about their 'wonderful' wedding in January this year and how she then 'felt almost physically battered' when she realised Liddle had flown home from their honeymoon early to meet his mistress.

In revenge she paid £70 at an auction for 10 sacks of manure to be sent to the office of The Spectator magazine, where Liddle is a columnist and Monckton worked as a receptionist.

 

[sumimasen]

Newswipe should be on at prime time on ITV, ITV2 and E4. It's scary that a program like this has to exist.

Love it.

 

[Dandred]

better than last weeks one

Why do you think the names of the billionaire donors were beeped out? I argued on another thread that the upper classes are the ones with the real power, not the middle class. You refuted that. Are you still so confident that the upper classes don't run the show?

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Here's the Jade Goody commentary for anybody who missed it (warning: watching it may make you want to go out and murder journo scum, particularly the horse faced hack witch Carrol Malone and the vile, repugnant curmudgeonly snidebag of shit and puss Rod “for the love of humanity kill me now” Liddle):

 

[DotCommunist]

Why do you think the names of the billionaire donors were beeped out? I argued on another thread that the upper classes are the ones with the real power, not the middle class. You refuted that. Are you still so confident that the upper classes don't run the show?

When class is defined by economic circumstances, your billionaire donors might be considered upper class. That minority has to keep to the will of the m/c in the main-they as always are the buffer between the poor and the rich. Hence their aims almost directly influence the upper classes. Aristos have no real power anymore, and the economic term upper classes are almost always successful scions of upper middle class families.

 

[Dandred]

When class is defined by economic circumstances, your billionaire donors might be considered upper class. That minority has to keep to the will of the m/c in the main-they as always are the buffer between the poor and the rich. Hence their aims almost directly influence the upper classes. Aristos have no real power anymore, and the economic term upper classes are almost always successful scions of upper middle class families.

You are saying the rich/elite/billionaire's aren't in control of the current form in which we live?

The same ties that bond the working man also hold the middle man.

Only the rich have the power to change that.


FUCK THE RICH.

 

[Dandred]

How many working class families does the UK have now?

Not as many as when that bitch Thatcher took over.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

I want to marry Mr Brooker

 

[DexterTCN]

Here's the Jade Goody commentary for anybody who missed it (warning: watching it may make you want to go out and murder journo scum, particularly the horse faced hack witch Carrol Malone and the vile, repugnant curmudgeonly snidebag of shit and puss Rod “for the love of humanity kill me now” Liddle):

Sadly, quality.

 

[electrogirl]

That was interesting.

I can't help but wish this show was longer though.