A couple of links: Short Tips and Newswipe

[wshaffer]

For anyone thinking of submitting a short story for the Big Finish Short Trips thing, here's some advice from Simon Guerrier, based on the stuff he saw when he read submissions for a previous Short Trips anthology. (Point #11 is kind of interesting in light of "The Waters of Mars", but in general I the advice holds up well.)

Meanwhile, the blog Sociological Images offers this hilarious video on cliches in news reporting taken from the British TV show Newswipe. Newswipe is one of the reasons why I wish Americans could watch BBC TV on iPlayer. I'll have to go see if there's more of it floating around on YouTube.

Comments

[omniguy.livejournal.com]

OMG I love Newswipe.

I have all of the episodes aired last year and this year on my PC if you would like me to upload them somewhere for you.

Let me know, it is just amazing TV. Charlie Brooker is genius.

[wshaffer.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the offer. Happily, I've discovered that all the eps are up on Youtube, in reasonably good quality, even. I watched the first episode of season 1 last night, and relived those early days of the financial crisis. Even all these months later, it's still very funny.