MEDIA STRIKES BACK
FOX NEWS JOINS IN THE ATTACK
TRUMP GETTING MUCH FLACK
It's seven weeks now into my recovery,
too much couch time and lots of tv..
I stopped my subscription to CNN, no longer
in need of a biased news trend..
My local news channels have kept me in touch,
with the weather, crimes, and opiates too much..
I discovered the World Channel is just what I need,
a global perspective with the most balanced feed..
Penn State offers this broadcast for free and it
comes with wonderful educational documentaries to see..
I love learning about people and cultures I'll never see, on
our wonderful planet with such diversity.
Their journeys, their struggles, their resiliency,
restores my faith in humanity..
April 15 Lament Watching the News
While watching the news
I am constantly lamenting
The sad state of political discourse
In these increasingly
Disunited United States of America.
Where we have retreated into enemy tribes
Blue, red, and purple states
With each convinced their tribe
Is righteous, patriotic, and pro-American.
Accusing the other tribe
As anti-american fascists
plotting to set up a dictatorship.
Some talking darkly
about Civil War 2.0.
That is my daily lament
Particularly when insomnia
Steals slept from me
At 0 dark hundred.
If only love happened round the world
That would be a pretty slow news day
Actually CNN would have to shut down
No “JUST IN” bulletins, per se
Weather reports predict nothing but sunshine
Temperatures high in the 80s
People goin' round wearing dirty big grins
Things all coming up daisies
Wake up, wake up, my real good friends
Time to rise and start your day
Don't try watching the morning news
CNN has shut down they say
No point in broadcasting only good news
Boring and humdrum for sure
Imagine watching nothing but jubilation
It would sure bore one to the core
Wake up, wake up, my good friend Jack
Seems you were having too good a time
You had a great big smile on your kisser
If only real life was so sublime
....BREAKING NEWS
BREAKING NEWS......
Bye, Bye, Chris Cuomo!
Gee, no tears will be in my ale!
Such be the high cost,
To keep brother, Andrew out of jail.
Now, you can both go to MSNBC!
And with Rachel Maddow ?
You will be twins of news frivolity.
John Malone headed to clean up CNN.
Good luck, Malone, there are more to
fire, for sure, before then.
We need news not mean, vicious
propaganda.
To dance and drink lemonade, finally,
on a truth constructed news veranda.
***John Malone.John was the head of a
huge cable company years ago.
He is a man of integrity. I used to work
for him. Best wishes to CNN.
John runs a tight ship!PR
12/4/2021
AN ARTICLE ON CNN
Think the jollies are starting to return
Told you I wouldn't stay down long
Not those kind of jollies, you naughty people
Thought you might get me wrong
You people, you really should be ashamed
What kind of dude d'ya think I am
I'm quite respectable and live a clean life
But in reality it's all just a scam
Sometimes I'll be hanging from the chandelier
Overcome be these jollies I enjoy
Dribbling and drooling to beat the band
Talk about jollies, ooooh boy!
Must be careful at this extremely old age
Not as agile as I once used to be
So if you happen to see an article on CNN
Man falls from chandelier, it's me!
CNN Chyrons
BREAKING NEWS
SOON.
MY NAME'S WOLF BLITZER
AND WE'RE
JUST HOURS AWAY
FROM FIRST ELECTION RESULTS.
Ummm...
BREAKING NEWS
EARLY VOTING SPIKES AMONG LATINOS IN 3 KEY STATES
You can...
TAG YOUR ELECTION DAY INSTAGRAMS
#MYVOTE
BREAKING NEWS: VOTING UNDER WAY ACROSS U.S.
JUST HOURS AWAY FROM FIRST ELECTION RESULTS...
I promise...
FIVE STATES VOTING ON WHETHER TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA
BREAKING NEWS: CLINTON MOTORCADE LEAVING FOR NYC
FIRST POLLS CLOSE: 48 MIN 37 SEC
Look I know you were here for Anderson Cooper
but we can't all be him okay?
CNN -- Hate for your Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.
It is the death of all that's good
the dark of darkest night
It comes from what's not understood
devouring all that's right.
It feeds on love and pain it brings
and your uncertainty,
the great destructor of all things
It makes what you will be.
It never dies or goes away
but keeps on getting strong
It eats at truth both night and day
until all love goes wrong.
And you will surely die alone
but never comprehend
It is the death of all you've known
your hate, consuming to your end.
You live and brreath this hate you feel
Broadcasting it to everyone
and suddenly, you know it's real,
in hate you die, it never will be gone.
© ron wilson aka vee Bdosa the Doylestown poet
if bombs fall on a
far off place can CNN
make us feel the pain
woman lies about
her color do we color
her in black and white
man massacres nine
innocent souls yet some care
more about burnt flag
Charley Cotton blames
the dead for dying because
they didn't want to kill
a flag flies above
intolerance lives below
hate lives between them
emancipation
reshaped a nation don't fly
stars and bars no more
If CNN is LEFT and FOX is RIGHT
who gets Taken & who is Wrong
Choice is Yours it’s your Right
TO Choose TO Be Right
so pay close attention
very close attention
Listen For The
Right Clues
M S N B C
Tells Lies
They Are
WRONG
You get
Taken
O L D
news
\/
/\
new
news
Listen For
The RIGHTclues
Very close attention
So pay close Attention
RIGHT To Be To Be RIGHT
RIGHT Choice is Yours RIGHT
LEFT IS CNN and FOX IS RIGHT
M S N B C
IS NOT
RIGHT
IS NOT
F O X
NEWS
RIGHT
???
If only love happened round the world
That would be a pretty slow news day
Actually CNN would have to shut down
No “JUST IN” bulletins, per se
Weather reports predict nothing but sunshine
Temperatures high in the 80s
People goin' round wearing dirty big grins
Things all coming up daisies
Wake up, wake up, my real good friends
Time to rise and start your day
Don't try watching the morning news
CNN has shut down they say
No point in broadcasting only good news
Boring and humdrum for sure
Imagine watching nothing but jubilation
It would sure bore one to the core
Wake up, wake up, my good friend Jack
Seems you were having too good a time
You had a great big smile on your kisser
If only real life was so sublime
© Jack Ellison 2013
Changes at CNN
CNN has cut its staff
Jewish writers are all gone
Leaving only Arab journalists
There to carry on
I’m not saying they’ll be biased
Or reporting won’t be thorough
But it’s just the office gutted
Was their small Israeli Bureau
CNN used to send out both
An Arab and a Jew
To cover any story
In the mid-east that is true
Now I wonder what this means
When reporting on those scenes
Will we get the truth from the mid-east climes
Or the Fatah and the Hamas lines
Mdailey 2/10/12
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