Watched "Good Night and Good Luck" again, David Straithairn's virtuoso turn as Murrow and thought about how the evening news and the minds who brought us "Your Show of Shows" are gone with the corporate (stinky cheese) wind.
TVolution
In the beginning was creativity
Watch This - brought to you by
Buy This
This pattern morphed over time in sinister ways
Buy This bought out the creators of
Watch This, thereby dictated the watching
Watch This was shuffled about according to Buy This trending
Our only anchor was the anchorman
the Network Evening News
Buy This pulled up that anchor and we were adrift
Then Buy This created
Watch This Happening Now, which became
Watch Only These Bits, then
Watch Only These Bits And Think This About Them
And Anyone Who Disagrees With Us Is A Socialist
Now we’re narcotically glued to the tube
Dancing With America’s Next Apprentice Survivor Idol
Plasma spasma extravaganza
Minds restless, but legs so lazy they got their own syndrome
and consequently their own drug
well-advertised, saturating the market like Crisco
and every bit as healthy
(c) 2010 Amy Barlow Liberatore/Sharp Little Pencil
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This was great -- Reminds me of Jello Biafra's "Eric Meets the Moose Diarrhea Salesman."
ReplyDeleteI wanted to be a TV writer - and that's how I got my name. It's an old poem but I'll post it on my site called "How I Became Moskowitz"
- write on! Mosk
Hmmm. You say you're a follower
ReplyDeleteof Jesus yet you're a lefty. Does
that mean you support abortion?
Know what the word OXYMORON
means? You cannot be a follower
of Jesus and support that. You
must decide: either faith wins
(yooNeye are only granted a short
time on this decaying earth) or
abortion rears their ugly head and
you stick withat - screw God --->
Solution? Solution, miss adorable:
● nrg2xtc.blogspot.com ●
Cya soon, girly-withe-curly...
PS Go home/REPENT if you're
ReplyDeletea supporter of infantacide; kneel
at your bedside and ask for the
grace not2commit abortion nomo.
If not, if you're atheist living in CA
or wherever, I fear for your soul.
Make Your Choice -SAW
I love you.
I miss you.
I'll seeUsoon...