Friday, November 11, 2016

News media

News media for the most part 
tells truth like advertising
diluted and adulterated 
yet never quite untrue
and so it is at its best 
serving demagoguery
which the gullible public 
swallowing it all up
sadly promotes its doing.  

Sensation sells.

Social media in this digital age
propagates news in fragments 
emotionally loaded like sound bites
without rational argumentation
and diminishes truth even more. 

Sensation screams.
Sensation smears.

Media has been degrading
democracy into mediacracy
and will undoubtedly help it
corrupt into mobocracy.

What are we to do, oh what to do.

As when lost in a deep forest
we must walk on bravely
even if we are not sure which way 
alert to any sign of escape
for if we stall we perish.

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