The moving-finger having writ moves on
Seems just the other day the TV-news was deluging us with images of Kim Jong Un’s massive minions frenziedly goosestepping through a gigantic public square in Pyongyang, while chubby boy-wonder and his hatted generals in dark aviator-sunglasses clapped like trained seals.
A scene right out of those grainy Nazi propaganda films.
Garbled footage, seemingly from the ‘60s, was aired of intermediate-range rockets being launched.
Boy-Wonder was threatening nuclear Armageddon against South Korea, Japan, and U.S. bases in the Pacific.
No matter those minions would scatter like insects if our country launched a counterstrike.
But then suddenly two bombs explode at the finish of the Boston Marathon.
Welcome to the back-burner, Kim! Suddenly your show-of-strength collapses into a whimper.
And the spotlight was such fun. Bluster makes Boy-Wonder the center of attention. Dennis Rodman even, huggee-poo with a dayglo freak!
For about a decade I worked at a newspaper in nearby Canandaigua, the Canandaigua Daily Messenger.
If there was anything I learned, it was how transient the news was — that the significance thereof seemed dependent on how much coverage it got.
It seemed like we made the news. We’d cover a town-meeting or something, yet suddenly it got skonked by a fly-infestation, all because some farmer spread chicken-manure on his field.
A fly-infestation might not be that newsworthy, but news-hounds on our staff decided it was.
They’d gravitate toward it just like the flies we reported.
A bombing occurs in Boston, and suddenly the media mobilizes, as well they should.
Suddenly everyone is going to Boston. Boy-Wonder’s noisy histrionics disappear, since they’re no longer reported.
So the bellicose Conservatives rise up, complaining about how the media makes the news. —They wanna manufacture the news too; look at Fox.
Granny would show at the Messenger reception-desk wondering why her chicken-barbecue hadn’t made the front-page above-the-fold.
Well, maybe a fly-infestation might sell more papers.
Even if the results of a town-board meeting might be more important.
Boy-Wonder is gonna have to actually launch nuclear Armageddon to return to the top of the media-circus heap.
And in so doing probably kill himself. (Dennis will have no one to hug.)
And now the Boston Marathon bombing is skonked by the massive explosion of a fertilizer-plant in Texas.
A scene right out of those grainy Nazi propaganda films.
Garbled footage, seemingly from the ‘60s, was aired of intermediate-range rockets being launched.
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| Boy-Wonder. |
Boy-Wonder was threatening nuclear Armageddon against South Korea, Japan, and U.S. bases in the Pacific.
No matter those minions would scatter like insects if our country launched a counterstrike.
But then suddenly two bombs explode at the finish of the Boston Marathon.
Welcome to the back-burner, Kim! Suddenly your show-of-strength collapses into a whimper.
And the spotlight was such fun. Bluster makes Boy-Wonder the center of attention. Dennis Rodman even, huggee-poo with a dayglo freak!
For about a decade I worked at a newspaper in nearby Canandaigua, the Canandaigua Daily Messenger.
If there was anything I learned, it was how transient the news was — that the significance thereof seemed dependent on how much coverage it got.
It seemed like we made the news. We’d cover a town-meeting or something, yet suddenly it got skonked by a fly-infestation, all because some farmer spread chicken-manure on his field.
A fly-infestation might not be that newsworthy, but news-hounds on our staff decided it was.
They’d gravitate toward it just like the flies we reported.
A bombing occurs in Boston, and suddenly the media mobilizes, as well they should.
Suddenly everyone is going to Boston. Boy-Wonder’s noisy histrionics disappear, since they’re no longer reported.
So the bellicose Conservatives rise up, complaining about how the media makes the news. —They wanna manufacture the news too; look at Fox.
Granny would show at the Messenger reception-desk wondering why her chicken-barbecue hadn’t made the front-page above-the-fold.
Well, maybe a fly-infestation might sell more papers.
Even if the results of a town-board meeting might be more important.
Boy-Wonder is gonna have to actually launch nuclear Armageddon to return to the top of the media-circus heap.
And in so doing probably kill himself. (Dennis will have no one to hug.)
And now the Boston Marathon bombing is skonked by the massive explosion of a fertilizer-plant in Texas.
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