Know Your Enemy

"It's a soulless lack of self-reproach that makes the predominant Perez Hilton/3am Girl/Holy Moly/TMZ gloaty online sneer-culture so unbearably dull and depressing. You people lick the inner base of dustbins for a living. Stop looking so fucking pleased with yourselves."

In the wake of the internet hate campaign waged against 13-year-old Rebecca Black, Charlie Brooker - no stranger to bilious personal outbursts himself - argues for "poise" and picking your targets more judiciously.