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World News Tonight
Folder:
The world C-Span
Fox News
CNN
All the headlines read the same
Rape, sex violence
Wars, fire, politics,
Nothing ever changes,
But nothing stayws the same
They found the killer
Of old what's-his-name
Every night the 'terror alert' elevated
But nothing happens here
But there are millions of things
happening there.
Gay rights
Straight fights
Protests of the wrong
Written in song
Kid's with weird names
And Celebrity games.
C-span
Fox News
CNN
All the headlines Read the same
Allies become enemies
Enemies become allies
Bush can't govern
Kerry tells lies
Nothing ever changes
But nothing stays the same
This all in
World News Tonight.
Hey. I was online so I decided to give another critique.
This poem is descriptive, yet straight-forward and to the point on an aspect that I really do agree. World News is really no news. Same shit, different days. The media is an epicenter of manipulating facts. When you watch it, it forces you to care about things going on in the world, when in all reality, it tends to make the world smaller and less exciting, and it focuses on subjects that are degrading and/or not important to you. It also tampers with knowledge priorities. Such as, you never get to know about constant skirmishes on the border of North Korea and South Korea since it happens all the time, and yet, chanses are that because it happens all the time, and the news ignores it, you never knew about it. The news also may bring knowledge of events in the world, yet, like other media, sublimitally, it can enforce stereotypes, ideals, prejudices, and other things that are just straight up wrong. We know this somewhere within our minds, but we have so much access to it, it sinks within the cracks of our knowledge.
This poem you used to describe this concept justifies the wrongs of news and media in a tense that its spoken through your own opinionation (like most poems, but when its put together on a poem like this, its really noticable, and it makes the poem more enjoyable.)