Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/05/05/every-economics-segment-on-the.html
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Spot on.
Also, is it me, or does Charlie Brooker look and sound a lot like Jared Harris?
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Not only every economics news item, but very nearly every news item.
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i snapped off the telly, turned to my missus and said, “well, we’re fucked, then.”
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That’s a Numberwang!
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I’d like to see Charlie and Emily Surname do this for Covid-19 updates.
Roger that.
I would rather have them concentrate on economic takes of the SARS 2 pandemic, but their take on numbers will also work on any case number reporting, of course. Concerned parents? Betcha. Replace the helicopter shots with some lab equipment and someone wearing a white labcoat. It’s not the fucking apprentice, but rather a version of CSI.
Now, can I interest you in some curves?
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Random member of the public posts a snarky comment as a response to this spoof/deconstruction of economic news reports. It’s supposed to be witty in the hopes of getting lots of likes.
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New graph shows the number of graphs may have peaked…
ETA: This is from this week’s Private Eye. More British humour.
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Speaking whereof, Erasure did something similar with their very literal video from 1988
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Did British TV invent “host walking toward the camera and explaining something?”
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here you go! 
I’d like to see Charlie and Emily Surname do this for Covid-19 updates.
Charlie Brooker’s Anti Viral Wipe coming to BBC 2 on 14 May
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I don’t know, but Eric Idle perfected it…
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I’m a concern troll who does not get you are being witty, and I admonish you. Now I feel satisfied.
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“Like you’re watching the fucking Apprentice…”
No, not that!
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Maybe - James Burke’s long take as he walked along the Apollo rocket at Cape Kennedy, timed perfectly to finish just as the space shuttle lifted off, was a pretty magical piece of tv.
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Very much appreciated.
Bit of a legend that one. Except that there’s an edit after the long walk, and the launch is a separate take (you can tell, because his clip on mike has been repositioned). Oh, and it wasn’t a shuttle, it was Voyager 2. But still, yes, it was spectacular TV.
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Emily Surname, Philomena Cunk, and Barry Shitpeas have produced some of my favorite news segments.
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