Cookbook

Those (few) of you who might see my facebook feed may have seen a link I posted the other day to an incendiary blog post.*  Except, rather than being incendiary, it laid out, in fairly humourous fashion, the way in which a typical incendiary blog post would be constructed.  My accompanying comment on my facebook posting of the link was something like, “Ever wonder what really intelligent people do on the internet? Check out this blog post and be sure to survey a few of the comments.”  And the way the commenters on that particular post played along clearly demonstrated their worthiness to be, in fact, commenting.

Now, I normally wouldn’t regurgitate something I had previously posted on facebook, but I make exception here because, well, Stumble Upon has revealed something I knew not of before.  And that is a Brit, name of Charlie Brooker, who has a show on BBC called Newswipe.  In the attached video he constructs a typical television news segment in a similar manner as the above linked blog post is done and it is uncannily accurate.  Not to mention amusing.  Have a look; it’s a mere two minutes in length:

*Credit where credit is due.  I found the link to said incendiary blog post here.