In the first part of this show, the Brooker looks at the medias' coverage of events in Haiti. What interested me the most, which is only a small segment of the report, is different governing bodies and medias use of the crisis for their benefit. Bill O'Reilly jumps at the chance to use other countries less generous economic benefits to Haiti as an opportunity to blow the American imperialist trumpet whilst Hugo Chavez is reported to have claimed the Haitian disaster was a result of an American "Earthquake inducing super-weapon".
This is incredibly relevant to the concept of hyperreal news reporting, wherein the narrative of a report is created in order to benefit a particular ideology.
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