Tuesday, 9 February 2016
Sorry to disturb you
main river
churning it out
the daily
prop
-aganda
motto_ we lie but not a lot
spiced news
with a slant
sprinkled
with spin
the daily
puff piece
served up
with bullsjot
you waited a month
for the news
of the little boy buggered
in the swimming pool toilets
four days
for those girls
raped and groped
in the square
slight oversights
hardly worth mentioning
nine-eleven
forget it
stranger
than fiction
is what's in the dust . . .
pull it
said larry
so pull it they did . . .
now
get zapping back
to your soaps
on the box
news
is the news
whatever
you say
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No idea what it says Gwil - I am sure you will have searched the computer to see if it can help. But I absolutely love it - the colours, the subject matter and the naievety (excuse spelling) of the way it is done.
ReplyDeleteThanks Pat. Pleased to get your reaction. In fact delighted!
DeleteReally like this poem, Gwil, though I got stuck at "what's in the dust". And are we meant to know who Larry is? I know that like a joke, a poem is not better for having been explained. Just thought I'd share what works and doesn't for me.
ReplyDeleteThanks Shawn. Some readers will 'get' some 'jokes' and some will 'get' others. The ex-ZDF director (that's main German news) revealed that German TV has to push news that makes the government look good, and not the real news. We've known that for some time. It's nice to have it confirmed by a top source. It's the same here in Austria, with standing jokes about ORF news slant being commonplace. I expect it's basically the same most of the world over. Reporters Without Borders Publish Charts of Press Freedoms etc., which are quite revealing.
DeleteHello Shawn, have now put up a video clip to explain about the dust.
DeleteI have always known that the US government does the same. I'll put my lack of awareness of the dust down to Alzheimer's. I assume and hope I thought about it at the time. Thanks for the video.
DeleteFor Larry read Chuck or Ted I thought. For all news, read and listen to plenty and keep a clear open mind. Whatever you talk about you have seen in the news there will always be someone who will disagree, say you are talking rubbish and it is all lies. If you don't know the lies you will never have any chance of getting to the truth.
ReplyDeleteLarry is the owner of Building 7. This is the building that the BBC said had been brought down 20 minutes before it was brought down. Building 7 was wired for demolition and as they say in the demolition business it was pulled. Larrys other buildings were the twin towers. Groups like Scholars for 9/11 truth, for example, say that the twin towers were also pulled .
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