How they make TV news

I challenge readers of Decoder to watch Charlie Brooker's video and watch tonight's television newscasts in the same way. You've been warned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4

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Is it possible the Grammys could lay on one more layer of production on a song?  Grammys forego taste for spectacle is right, as the headline on Ben Rayner's story says.

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There are serious things to write about today and less serious things. I interviewed Toronto mayoral candidate Adam Giambrone Sunday and learned he has a cat named Fluffy. But it's a Monday in winter - Monday - and anything but a funk seems inapprorpriate. So I'll be funking until tomorrrow when a cheerier blogger will return.