The hyper-reality of fiction techniques has transformed the way we consume the news. A good piece on the strange narratives in the news.
« »Channel 4 News Podcasts – the first is a special half-hour report on the links between cannabis use and mental health problems by Jon Snow. Good to see them putting in real effort to provide a podcast rather than just repurposing existing material. Good too to see more professional podcasting (it’s a mystery to me how the whole thing took off on the back of half-arsed amateurish content, which is what 99.9% of podcasts seem to be).
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