Charlie Brooker’s Gitstorm
Charlie Brooker’s on fine form this morning…
Friday’s paper included a rundown of other “obscenities” broadcast by the Beeb, which the paper fearlessly “uncovered” by recording some TV shows and writing down some of the jokes. To protect readers’ sensibilities, all the rude words were sprinkled with asterisks, although since the Mail’s definition of “rude” extends to biological terms such as “penis”, it was a bit like gazing at an ASCII representation of a snowstorm on a ZX Spectrum circa 1983. Perhaps next week it will produce a free sheet of asterisk stickers for readers to plaster over their own genitals, lest they catch sight of them in a mirror and indignantly vomit themselves into a coma.
Posted on November 3rd, 2008 at 7:41 am
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I blogged that one too
He’s such a refreshing firestorm of indignant sanity.
The Brooker is a God amongst Men, and whatever is above the rank of God amongst meedja types.