What is the Institute for Social Inventions and what has Charlie Skelton done to annoy them/him so?
“Charlie Skelton, a columnist, surprisingly, for the London Guardian, should be avoided like the plague. He peddles in print facetiously violent, murderous and offensive fantasies and in my view is fit for employment only by some Nazi or National Front publication.
”In my 30 years of experience of dealing with journalists, he is the first one I have felt the need to warn people about in this way.“
A sense of humour malfunction? Or perhaps confusion with Charlie Brooker, who also ran into some trouble with the humour-bypass brigade in 2004. Either way, the Institute for Social Inventions has some issues.
-
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
View all posts
