The Daily (Maybe) (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Charlie Brooker says ; Jesus "would have doubtless vomited up his own ribcage in disgust at the mere sight of the hollow, anaesthetising capitalist moonbase that is the Westfield Centre." No doubt he would have. I'm not a fan of shopping centres myself. More importantly the piece is citing another example of newspapers treating advertising as if it's news, something I was railing...
We Like... (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
My lovely friend Adam who is quite possibly the only reader of this blog is a big Charlie Brooker fan. I’m ashamed to say that I didn’t really know who he was until one day; Adam told me he’d watched a show called ‘You Have Been Watching’. You Have Been Watching is a tv panel game where the contestants and host – Charlie Brooker –...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
... users in October, down 3.82% on September, but up 22% year on year. "Our Trafigura story and Charlie Brooker's column on Jan Moir a few days later highlighted the way stories can grow and propagate through Twitter and Facebook with steady streams of traffic being driven by these social media channels," said Emily Bell, director of digital content at GNM. "Guardian.co.uk...
Media Week (Free subscription) | yesterday
... a record breaking 13,290,715 users in the UK.Bell highlighted the publisher’s Trafigura story and Charlie Brooker's column responding to Jan Moir’s comments around the death of Stephen Gately as examples of how news stories "can grow and propagate" online. The combined use of traditional news services with social networking channels like Twitter and Facebook were recognised as driving...
Did you discover what the Earth peo (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
"Keep The Aspidistra Flying" by George Orwell "Bollocks to Alton Towers: Uncommonly British Days Out" by Robin Halstead, Jason Hazeley, Alex Morris and Joel Morris "Silverland" by Dervla Murphy "Anger: Handling a Powerful Emotion in a Healthy Way" by Gary Chapman "Dawn of the Dumb: Dispatches from the Idiotic Frontline" by Charlie Brooker...
Split Horizons (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... finally, on the news that the excellent Doug Stanhope will be contributing to the next series of Charlie Brooker's Newswipe , here is his unmissable Channel 4 show on immigration from 2007:
Alice In Blogland (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... , Dr. Rob , Dr. Shroom , and... of all people writing anything on the internet I'd LOVE to see Charlie Brooker do this. He usually has at least five great, original, hilarious phrases with sexual content in everything he writes, and then he gets it all published in the Guardian. Still haven't tried his Spotify challenge though, so he'll probably ignore me. That only makes four other...
James O'Neill's blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... the Brain is up to sufficient revs. By linking up some of the other comments – not least Charlie Brooker’s demolition piece – Fry became a focus for the the reaction (in fact, to a lot of the media it seems Twitter is Stephen Fry ) . The storm of complains to the press complaints commission was greater than their web site could handle. Derren Brown picked up the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Suburban sitcom Outnumbered could easily have flopped. Instead its child stars are up against Charlie Brooker for a comedy award Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin's sitcom Outnumbered should have been a disaster. At least three-fifths of its humour depends on the improvisatory skills of a trio of child actors, one of whom was only five when the sitcom started two years ago. Little as contrary...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The Hell Of It All by Charlie Brooker is published by Faber, priced £12.99.
