{"id":2973,"date":"2020-03-16T14:54:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T14:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:06:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:06:39","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

BBC News, Sky News, Channel Four News etc. have become the gatekeepers of what news they decide we should see. Along with other corporate mainstream media, rather than objectively report news, they create perceptions of what they want us to believe and succeed in stupefying countless millions with their daily doses of uninformed, often inflammatory, ideologically driven propaganda,opinions and views. Sky News in particular, with their smug arrogance and often complete misrepresentation and 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;
You’re being 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,
It’s our favourite ruse,
You’re being 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;
You’re being dumbing you down,
You\u2019re watching Sky News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything is “unprecedented”
How we just love that word,
Usually used in a context
That’s completely absurd;
Thrown in with video footage
Carefully edited to confuse,
You’re being 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 it’s your intelligence we abuse;
You’re being dumbing you down,
You\u2019re watching Sky News. \u00a0

We say you can trust Sky News,
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 choose,
So we’ll keep on dumbing them down;
Thanks for watching Sky News!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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BBC News, Sky News, Channel Four News etc. have become the gatekeepers of what news they decide we should see. Along with other corporate mainstream media, rather than objectively report news, they create perceptions of what they want us to believe and succeed in stupefying countless millions with their daily…<\/p>\n

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