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Frazzled Reception

A Frazzled Reception. Written 06-17-03 By M. Aaron Hein.

Here’s a typical vignette for you of the common media, converted into poetic form, couresy of me! Corporate fat cats from the liberal media whom reap profit while their prosaic reporters pose as our ‘trustworthy public friends in the know’ to hawk the truth like rabid salesmen, stating ‘This just in, it is reported that [fill in the blank station] has the highest credability reports as reported by an unnamed polling agency’ and other devious ploys. As if it’s possibly to sell the truth, come on, it should be inherent! We report, you decide? Ah... right...whayever. Well, anyway, back on topic. This combative poem doesn’t reflect all the media out there (I know credible and trustworthy sources exist), I’m making more blatant refereces towards the largest media networks, like CNN and Fox, which play sensationslism like the most likely prospect, very much like a betting ticket for a top rated racing horse pick. And like the ace ticket, in too many instances, the issue is overplayed and losses subsequently mount.

Well, the monitor’s pretty much frazzled
my reception shifting
but the report’s in
just checking the news networks
the previous day
I needed the truth, but should have never looked this way
found feature stories of nonsense,
interests of reporter’s strayed
to celebrities, politicians amid controversy
however not conflicts or wars
sheesh, reporting has always been this way
never knew why until now
learned that with sensationalism
there ain’t no room
for veracity, credability,
no, just the capitalize on the mood

to sow

the minute, the second and go from there

to reap instant uproar

an in attention ensnare?
well, what a formula, blew up in the network’s face

this just in

you’re standing on the edge of a cliff
enshrouded with fog
you’re coerced into stepping off the edge
though there’s plainly a law of
physicality
or so there seems to be

but you’re reassured with each and every word
that they say
that everything you learned is null and void
that your opinion by society was bought

nonsense!

but no!
without hesitation you walk off and drop
over the edge
into the sea, six feet under
into the red
maybe so, that’s because you were deceived
forced into believing their credability
led by their lies, the serpents to believe
to receive,
to perceive

the truth they purvey it to be
but it’s fabricated, staged
hawking the moment,
the story monopolized
for bragging rights?
either it’s overexaggerated or anesthetized

maybe,

I’ll just guess
thats the price were forced to pay in a free society
so called free press limited by backroom lies to see
to say reporting is streamlined but not,
nah, it’s not nearly enshrouded in this mythical piety

but seriously,

ah, reception’s shot
antenna on the fritz again
no, there it goes,
programming edited, ill-credited
I’m better off blasting the screen with gunshot

with my good old ruger .42

looking for thr truth
you’re not gonna find it there, no way

botox stricken anchors, damned prose
with their prosaic ‘spicy chipotle kick’ nonsense

look towards the eyes of the working man in this
antiseptic society.
you see what I see
nothing but
dissent, incontent, resent, animosity!

organizations governing,
backroom orders to streamline
refine but in essence poorly cover
marked with selectivity

ecletic

Their policy to seek the ‘truth’
pervading,
encroaching, invading
in aspects of normality

Ludicrous

just checking into the news the other day
wasn’t surprised to what I heard them say
but turning to see my eyes were led away
no more damned lies to lead me astray,
blatant attempts to convert to sway,
I knew that fidelity in it would never stay,

fin...

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