Ever noticed how formulaic news reporting is? From the ‘walking through a busy crowd and talking with your hands’ to ‘shots of headless obese people’, Charlie Brooker shows how the news is made.
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Video of the Day: News reporting for dummies
VIDEO: A behind the scenes look at being a White House correspondent
What’s it like to be a journo following Barack Obama on a presidential trip? Judging by the video starring CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, there’s lots of waiting, getting on press buses, following the president’s car and hanging in the hotel. Glamorous!
McClelland’s execution should be a lesson for Rudd
There is really only one point to all the daily talking and all the travelling of political leaders during an election campaign. The 60 seconds or so of coverage on the nightly television news is what it is all about with the pictures being more important than the words, writes Richard Farmer.
