{"id":2973,"date":"2020-03-16T14:54:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T14:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2024-04-11T04:27:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T04:27:04","slug":"youre-watching-sky-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/?p=2973","title":{"rendered":"You’re Watching Sky News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The quality of the vast majority of corporate mainstream media reporting is both disgraceful and disturbing. Often acting as an insult to the collective intelligence, the corporate mainstream media succeed in stupefying countless millions with their daily doses of uninformed, often inflammatory, ideologically driven propaganda,opinions and views, masquerading as “news”. In particular Sky News, with their smug arrogance and often complete misrepresentation, or just plain ignorance, of facts makes me so angry I can no longer watch.
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It\u2019s 6 o\u2019clock,
Thank you for tuning in,
Our latest session of indoctrination
Is about to begin,
Another dose of propaganda,
Of our opinion and views;
We’re dumbing you down,
You\u2019re watching Sky News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Each report is a crisis,
It\u2019s just how we present,
If there isn\u2019t any crisis
We\u2019ll find one to invent,
We’ll whip up panic and fear,
If that\u2019s what we choose;
We’re dumbing you down,
You\u2019re watching Sky News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our team of ultracrepidarians
Are used everywhere,
With little or no knowledge,
We really don\u2019t care,
A stream of journalistic porn,
Designed to mislead and bemuse;
We’re dumbing you down,
You\u2019re watching Sky News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything is “unprecedented”
How we just love that word,
We use it in a context
That is totally absurd;
Thrown in with video footage
That’s edited to confuse,
We’re dumbing you down,
You\u2019re watching Sky News.

With the utter climate nonsense
Our whole team is infected,
And if anyone dares disagree
We say the “far right” is suspected,
But after all it\u2019s our choice
If your intelligence we abuse;
We’re dumbing you down,
You\u2019re watching Sky News. \u00a0

We may not promote misinformation,
It’s just that our “news” is not always “real”,
But as we hold the moral high ground,
So we can say what we feel,
We know that critical thinking
Is not what our viewers use,
So we’ll just keep dumbing them down;
Thanks for watching Sky News! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The quality of the vast majority of corporate mainstream media reporting is both disgraceful and disturbing. Often acting as an insult to the collective intelligence, the corporate mainstream media succeed in stupefying countless millions with their daily doses of uninformed, often inflammatory, ideologically driven propaganda,opinions and views, masquerading as “news”.…<\/p>\n

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