Poke the Beehive » charlie brooker http://www.pokethebeehive.com Effective writing and communication strategies for the communication-challenged Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:39:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The World’s Most Generic News Report http://www.pokethebeehive.com/2010/02/08/the-worlds-most-generic-news-report/ http://www.pokethebeehive.com/2010/02/08/the-worlds-most-generic-news-report/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:25:32 +0000 Dan Hutson http://www.pokethebeehive.com/?p=1823



I caught this parody of news reporting over on Kevin Roderick’s L.A. Observed. Check it out, then tune into any of the national evening news reports and see how closely they hew to this tired formula. God save us from by-the-numbers hack journalism.

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