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LiverpoolHibs
03-02-2009, 12:21 PM
I love this guy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/02/charlie-brooker-new-media-dictionary

Some of my favourites:

piersonality (peers-on-allitee) n. Self-consciously odious celebrity who trades on their own widely accepted repugnance to infuriatingly lucrative effect, thereby creating an unassailable feedback loop of violent loathing in absolutely everyone other than themselves; eg: Piers Morgan.

plebbledash (plebbul-dash) n. To bulk up a television news report with needless vox-pop soundbites from ill-informed members of the public.

dwindlethink (dwin-dull-think) vb. The process by which a member of the public forms an opinion on a subject of national importance after viewing a plebbledashed (qv) news report, then finds themselves passing it on to the nation when stopped in the street for another plebbledashed (qv) report the following day.

lyonhibs
03-02-2009, 12:57 PM
:faf: :faf:

Love the PR-reviewed phindings as well.

All of them so very, very pertinent!!

Hibee-Bongo
03-02-2009, 02:20 PM
Charlie Brooker is a legend, should have more time on television.