The End of the 'Noddy Shot' Is a Ray of Hope for Television

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One of the execs who has experienced a sort of 40-second, boil-in-the-bag catharsis is David Kermode, the news editor of Channel Five. I never knew Channel Five had, or needed, a news editor -- however, David is it, apparently. He announced that henceforth he was banning a whole bunch of hackneyed TV news 'tricks' which had previously been foisted upon the viewing public.

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The End of the 'Noddy Shot' Is a Ray of Hope for Television

Nobody much likes television, especially not the people who work in it. They think it's a cretinous medium, a sort of institutionalised con-trick, the cultural equivalent of a McDonald's Happy Meal -- processed excrement which everybody, including the consumer, knows to be dumb and bad for you. I suspect that this has always been true. It wouldn't surprise me if John Logie Baird was gripped by a feeling of revulsion and self-disgu...

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