Career grump Charlie has done it again. Hit the protruding nail on it’s rusty head. The head being the talking heads of TV news reporting. I’ve often wondered why the  formulaic and hackneyed style of much  TV news reporting  doesn’t come under fire more often.  It’s banal sequences of nodding heads and insincere men in suits looking concerned, can be seen across the world. From WXKPY in Cincinnati, to Channel Nine in Melbourne.

TV commentator Charlie Booker had it in his sights recently. The two minute clip below sums up all that is mediocre, lacklustre and tedious about many of the reports presented to us. Whatever the subject the same production techniques are wheeled out. Charlie blows the lid on all this below, I bet this clip will quickly become required viewing for Media Studies students across the land!

Every time I see a news story presented this way in future, Charlie’s assault will be lurking somewhere in the back of my mind.  Charlie is on  BBC Four, let’s hope they don’t drop him in the cutbacks announced this week.