Newswipe with Charlie Brooker

13 March 2009

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Brand new series launches in March 2009

Following on from the huge success of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, Brooker will now take an impertinent look at how the news is covered by the media.

The aim of Newswipe with Charlie Brooker is to expose the inner workings of news media, just as Screenwipe does to TV in general. Written and presented by Charlie Brooker, Newswipe will take a look at the brilliant or preposterous way the news is presented to us.

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."

There will also be experts on hand to analyse the news media's obsessions. Authorities on news picking apart certain stories include award winning journalist Nick Davies (author of Flat Earth News), Dr Ben Goldacre (from The Guardian's Bad Science column) and Adam Curtis (writer and producer of BBC Two's The Power of Nightmares).

Newswipe with Charlie Brooker will be a funny, thoughtful and scabrous digest of recent news events.

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