I was going to comment on the execrable bullshit spouted by the so-called funny man of the Guardianista, Charlie Brooker, who is neither clever nor funny as the linked articles more than adequately demonstrate, but it looks like the party Reptile got there before me.
I did like this from Graeme Archer, though:
People who look at other human beings, but see lizards hiding behind masks, are the sort of people from whom one normally backs away, carefully, trying to avoid stumbling over the chairs behind one’s legs;
So, Charlie Brooker, still a twat extraordinaire.
Yes, hilarious isn’t he.
I do agree with him in one respect, though. The BBC should absolutely not spend our money on self-promotion. In a competitive market, advertising what you have got is essential. But when you have monopoly power and a guaranteed revenue stream, making adverts about yourself is merely narcissistic. If we have got to have a BBC, and in my opinion we haven’t, it should at the very least just make decent programmes and shut up. The BBC advertising the BBC is like Kim Jong-Il spending millions on party propaganda. Like we/the Koreans had a choice.
I found the anti-Cameron stuff quite funny, by the way.
I agree with the underlying point about the BBC. However the Cameron stuff was pure puerile schoolboy humour and I use the term humour very loosely. His defenders try to claim that it is satire, however, satire requires someone more clever than Brooker to pull it off – the juxtaposition of the absurd with the underlying truth to create witty humour. I.e. it is funny because it is true.
He provided a fine example of Archer’s point about the modern left.