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As many of you already know Walter Cronkite, an icon from a time when the media actually served as a watchdog against entrenched power, passed away. My feelings are best expressed thus:
Corporate MSM journalists covering the death of Walter Cronkite is like Jeff “Beauregard” Sessions sermonizing Judge Sotomayor on racism. It’s a travesty.
My favorite memory of Cronkite was when he stood up and called the Vietnam War for the crime that it was. Today, a press more concerned about “presenting both sides” than keeping power in check, serves its corporate masters. Jefferson is doing cartwheels in his grave. RIP Mr. Cronkite, sorry you had to see the total prostitution of the media before you passed.
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How could they have possibly known --
all those dear, dead ladies.
The masochists, the psychos,
the stalkers, nymphomaniacs,
suicides and whores...
That they were blindly serving
one solitary purpose:
to be my basic training,
and endless apprenticeship,
preparing me for
final assault
on my frontline?
And how could I have possibly known
that all my martial arts
would fail me
against the flowers and laughter
that were your forward troops,
the outstretched heart
of your army?
all those dear, dead ladies.
The masochists, the psychos,
the stalkers, nymphomaniacs,
suicides and whores...
That they were blindly serving
one solitary purpose:
to be my basic training,
and endless apprenticeship,
preparing me for
final assault
on my frontline?
And how could I have possibly known
that all my martial arts
would fail me
against the flowers and laughter
that were your forward troops,
the outstretched heart
of your army?
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ReplyDeleteThe media sure has changed, hasn't it?
ReplyDelete@MacDaddy: Thanks! Glad you liked it
ReplyDelete@Rippa: Man Rippa, about FIVE corporations own almost ALL of the media. When Cronkite was in his heyday, media ownership, while not ideal, numbered in the hundreds.
Will Ferrel where he played a news anchor. Strangely enough, that comedy actually did a good history on how the news was transformed from being concerned about reporting the news, to being concerned about making a dollar.
That should read:
ReplyDelete"Ironically, the comedy, 'Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,' actually did a good job on the history on how the news was transformed from being concerned about reporting the news, to being concerned about making a dollar."
you speak truth, sir. Thank you.
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