There’s something reassuring about the idea that not many people read your stuff. You have greater freedom of expression, you don’t necessarily have to agonise about every single word (only every other one). It’s quite nice really.
So I’m a little bit worried to discover that my review of last year’s series of Charlie Brooker’s Screen Wipe is not only listed on his Wikipedia entry, it’s also linked to from the BBC4 Screen Wipe page. Should I have been quite so harsh? Should I have accentuated even more positives?
It’s all most upsetting.
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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.
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