Charlie Brooker, longtime critic of all that is shallow, vapid and ridiculous today, presenter of the BBC show Screenwipe and proprieter of various newspaper, magazine and newspaper columns… Has another show – it’s called Newswipe. (guess what it’s going to be about).
There’s going to be an initial run of six 30 minute episodes. Quoteth the magnificent Press Office of the British Broadcasting Corporation;
The aim of Charlie Brooker’s News Wipe is to expose the inner workings of news media, just as Screen Wipe does to TV in general.
The series will be a funny, thoughtful and scabrous digest of recent news events. News Wipe will take a look at the brilliant or preposterous way the news is presented to us.
There will also be experts on hand to pick apart certain stories and analyse the news media’s obsessions.
Charlie Brooker comments: “This is new territory for me: I’m no current affairs expert. Just like, I suspect, many people, when I tune into the news I often feel like I’ve wandered into episode 389 of the world’s most complex soap opera. So it’s also about me trying to make sense of a bewildering and often bloody stupid world.”
All I can say to this is you’d be an idiot to miss it! Keep your eyes peeled for more cutting-yet-remarkably-accurate commentary.