This is really brilliant stuff. Charlie Brooker on his excellent BBC show Newswipe (which I think is easily superior to The Daily Show) encapsulates how to construct a news clip. It rests on the idea of news clips having an easily recognizable form; which reminds me of the classic debates in studies of media effects around the idea of ‘priming’ – that crucial to audience experience of media are anticipations around its form, based on prior experiences. But mostly it’s just amusing.