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News Media..01. ABC
News.01..02.03..04. Academy Awards.01.
Amanpour, Christiane·01·02·
Associated Press.01.02.
Boston Globe.01. Campaign Finance
Reform.01.02.03.also. CBS News.01.02.03.04.
CNN·01·02·
Criminal cases..01. Cronkite, Walter·01·· Fox News..01.02.03.04.05.
Generally.01.
Jacoby, Jeff.01. King, Larry.00.01. Lehrer, Jim.00.01. Levin, Gerald.01.
Limbaugh, Rush--all here. O'Reilly, Bill..01.02.03.04.05. PBS.00.
Passing the Coverage..01.02. Rather, Dan.01.02.03.
Russert, Tim..01.
Sixty-Minutes.01. Stephanopoulos,
George..01. Time/Warner.01.
Wallace, Mike.01. White House Correspondents'
Dinner.01--02.
60-Minutes--See Sixty-Minutes..
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Sept. 23, 2003:
PoliSat.Com's
Political
Satire/
Commentary
Daily Update #
01·· ™©·2003 ··
The Gallupping
Gourmet..
Apparently hoping to save
the face Amanpour has displayed
of CNN's news
as parroting views
of Fox, CNN's found a way:
·
To prove that from Foxes they'll gallop,
they ordered some polling by Gallup
with Wes beating George
in groups not engorged
with folks who are prone to cast ballots.
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Inspired by a Sept.
22, 2003, "news" report that according to a CNN/USA-Today/Gallup
poll conducted Sept. 19-21, 2003, on "a head-to-head matchup" Clark
leads Bush by 49% to 46%. It struck me as odd that the "news"
report buried the following information about the poll at the end of the
report: "The poll of 1,003 adults, including 877 registered
voters, had a margin of error of plus of minus 3 percentage points, 4 points for registered voters."
(Emphasis added by Editor.) Since a poll of a group of which nearly 13%
were not even registered voters with the remaining 87% being merely
"registered" voters not classified whatsoever with respect to
"likelihood" of voting, or prior patterns of voting, is virtually
meaningless, I wonder about the motives of CNN/USA-Today in commissioning such
poll and in publishing its results as "news." Could it be,
perhaps, an effort to either disprove or rectify Christiane Amanpour's silly
assertions*
that Fox News had "intimidated" CNN into going easy on the Bush
Administration? *·Click
here to view PoliSat.Com's September 16, 2003, Update about Amanpour's claims.
--Jim Wrenn,
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Sept. 16, 2003:
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Amanpour's Unmitigated
DeGaulle..
On war, Amanpour said again
a "climate of fear" made a dent
in CNN's will
for risking its till
by questioning Dubya's intent.
Her network, she claims, was "intimidated"
by Fox, so the bad news they exfiltrated.
Like Peter* before,
it's clear Amanpour
exhibits De Gaulle** that's unmitigated.
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Inspired by a September
14, 2003, "news" report that CNN's Christiane Amanpour claims a
"climate of fear" created by the Bush administration and it's
"foot soldiers" at Fox News "intimidated" CNN into
minimizing coverage unfavorable to the War in Iraq. Said CNN's Christiane Amanpour: "I think the press was muzzled, and I think the press self-muzzled. I'm sorry to say, but certainly television and, perhaps, to a certain extent, my station was intimidated by the administration and its foot soldiers at Fox News. And it did, in fact, put a climate of fear and self-censorship, in my view, in terms of the kind of broadcast work we did."
Fox News spokeswoman Irena Briganti said of Amanpour's comments: "Given the choice, it's better to be viewed as a foot soldier for Bush than a spokeswoman for al-Qaeda."
·*·
I'm referring to Peter Arnett, who, after predicting the collapse of the
American military campaign in Iraq shortly after it began, lost his job as
"reporter" in Baghdad for MSNBC and National Geographic and then
suitably became the Fog on the Mirror, as
illustrated in our animation titled "Arnett's
Mirror."
·**·
Pardon the pun, but in my observations of Amanpour she always seems able to
summon the unmitigated gall to exhibit the same type of condescending,
patronizing view of American foreign policy (except when her
then-boyfriend/now-husband was a State Department spokesman during the Clinton
administration) consistently exhibited by the French since DeGaulle. --Jim Wrenn,
Editor@PoliSat.Com.·
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Aug. 27, 2003:
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01·· ™©·2003 ··
What Cronkite today would
call "lib'ral" is better defined as "illib'ral"..
Now Cronkite "admits" he's "a lib'ral,"
concedes most reporters are "lib'rals,"
and further contends
the claims that they bend
reports to their views is just drivel.
So why does he think that the news
is rarely distorted by views
and fairness abounds?
'Cause liturgies sound
correct to the folks in the pews.
In contrast to classical lib'rals,
who now fill the NeoCon middle,
too many today
as "lib'rals" display
an illness I'm naming "illib'ral."
To "lib'ral" I'm prefixing "ill"
defining it's use as a shill
to label as "lib'ral"
the pantheist drivel *
that PC Theocracy spills.
To "lib'ral" I also add "ill"
'cause often it's used as a shill
with do-gooder labels
for gov'ment enabled
to "save" us from foolish free will**.
To "lib'ral" I further add "ill"
whenever it's used as a shill
for PC Theocracy
contending democracy
means gov'ment on Faith can say nil***.
However, the opposite view
is one that I also eschew:
A TheoConOcracy
with Faith by democracy
enshrined as majority views****.
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Inspired by Walter
Cronkite's August 15, 2003, column titled, "Liberalism in the Media."
*To
learn what I mean by "pantheist
drivel," go here. **To
learn what I mean by this, go here and here.
***To
learn what I mean by this, go here.
****To
learn what I mean by TheoConOcracy (views espoused by those I would classify as
"TheoCons"-- i.e."conservatives" more interested in
promoting their theology than limited government), go
here and here. --Jim Wrenn,
Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Aug. 26, 2003:
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01·· ™©·2003 ··
The Franken Briars in
Franken's "Liars."..
I'm glad that Fox News is now yankin'
the lawsuit it filed against Franken,
who surely had hoped
by Fox to be poked
to draw more attention to Franken.
I wonder if Fox read my tomes*
on why to leave Franken alone
'cause suing for "Liars"
made patches of briars
where Franken desired to be thrown..
····
Inspired by a news
report that Fox announced its decision to dismiss its suit against Franken
for using Fox's trademarked slogan "Fair and Balanced" in the title of
his book mocking Fox and everyone to the right (left?) of FFOTL (Fashionable
Fascistic Of The Left). ·*·
To view my prior tomes on the subject, click here
for August 13, 2003 (or here for
"FrankenSine" and here for
"FrankenMorph") and here
for August 18, 2003 (or here
"Franken's Lair"). --Jim Wrenn,
Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Aug. 25, 2003:
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01·· ™©·2003 ··
Could ABC's George
Stephanopoulos knock Russert from Sunday's Acropolis?..
ABC
believed "No one can topple us"
when Brinkley ruled Sunday's Acropolis,
but slippage began
with Cokie & Sam
and bottomed with George
Stephanopoulos.
ABC thus became the Necropolis
while Tim became Zeus of Acropolis,
but yet ABC
thinks Russert can be
defeated by more Stephanopoulos.
Their hopes to re-conquer Acropolis
they've pinned on a lone Stephanopoulos,
but viewers, they'll find,
will only comprise
the fam'ly of George Stephanopoulos.
····
--Jim Wrenn,
Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Aug. 20, 2003:
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01·· ™©·2003 ··
Passing the Cov'rage, Part
II...
It's time for repeating my views
on "Passing the Cov'rage"
for news
about Operation
Iraq's Liberation
constricted to incident views.
Since networks constricted the news
to little but incident views,
the "news" on Iraq
by nature has lacked
the breadth to show news that ain't skewed.
····
The news networks' decisions following the end of formal combat operations in
Iraq to downgrade their coverage of "news" from Iraq to little more
than incident-driven coverage has seriously impaired the ability of the public
to view events in such as the bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad in a
sensible perspective. I wish the "news" networks would include
daily one-hour programs devoted exclusively to news from Iraq and Afghanistan
with breadth and depth to enable viewers to be able to view sensational
incidents with a more realistic perspective. To view the original
"Passing the Coverage" animation (June 29, 2003), click here. --Jim Wrenn,
Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Aug. 19, 2003:
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01·· ™©·2003 ··
The Faux*
News Networks..
MSNBC, CNN and Fox News
contend they're presenting the serious news
but all three include
as though it were "news"
celebrity pap and those lawyers with views.
Obsessively cov'ring sensational cases,
celebrity gossip and vehicle-chases
in battles for ratings
they're misallocating
their assets for cov'ring the most-vital places.
To answer, they first rightly skewer
the tastes of the typical viewer,
whose eyeballs are glued
to gossipy news,
then whine that news-junkies are fewer.
However, it's not an excuser
that news-junkie viewers are fewer--
Before Fox supplanted
the status quo ante,
the sources for balance were fewer.
So, therefore, to Fox I suggest
for shows on faux news you should let
MSNBC
and CNN be
where fans know such drivel they'll get.
Then Fox can continue to prove
the market for serious news
is larger than thought
before Twenty-Naught
by losing the fans of faux news.
····
·*·Editor's
note: Although there is a website, FauxNews.Com, which satirizes Fox,
that's not to what I'm refering. (Ostensibly, FauxNews.Com harbors the
illusion or delusion that the news networks other than Fox are not presenting faux
news.) Rather, I'm using "faux news" to mean the
kind of pap too often found on all three "news" networks-- i.e.,
"news" about celebrities, obsessive coverage of sensational crimes and
criminal trials (which should really be labeled "infomercials" for
"high profile" lawyers), car-chases, and bleed-must-lead coverage of
isolated disasters. It's too facile to say there would not be a large
enough audience left to support a news network eschewing such coverage just as
it was too facile to say years ago that there would not be an audience large
enough to support a view of the news not genuflecting to the stereotypical views
of the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times,
ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and NPR. Until the advent of Fox News, C-SPAN, McNeil-Lehrer
(now NewsHour) and CrossFire were the only places viewers could find
right-of-center views alongside, or balanced against, left-of-center
views. --Jim Wrenn,
Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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A pass in the Spin Zone
would score in the end zone..
O'Reilly's good judgment has shrunk
in suing Al Franken, the drunk,
for lies about Bill
'cause wisdom is nil
in you-know-what contests with skunks.
If asked, I would humbly advise
that Bill use a tactic more wise:
A best-selling book
providing a look
at liars who lie about lies.
····
Inspired by O'Reilly's
August 18, 2003, column asserting his reasons for his and Fox's suit against
Al Franken for defamation and for trespassing on Fox's "Fair and
Balanced" slogan. --Jim Wrenn,
Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Aug. 14, 2003:
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When "ABC News"
means "ABC Skews"..
Now ABC News has described
the arms-dealer sting by our spies
to capture a man
who'd purchase some SAM's
as "less than [is meeting] the eye."
The factors, contends ABC,
reveal the defendant to be
a guy merely willing
to buy SAMs for killing
induced by a sting to proceed.
That ABC failed to cognize
that Russia's assistance with spies
enabled the stinging
shows ABC's thinking
is "less than [is meeting] the eye."
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In an August
13, 2003 report about the sting resulting in the arrest of the British citizen who contracted with undercover Russian intelligence agents (working with British and American intelligence agents) to purchase to purchase 50 shoulder-fired Russian-made SAM's to be sold in America to terrorists willing to fire them at American airlines,
ABC News focused primarily on the "sting" nature of the
operation-- i.e., that the defendant accepted such proposed deal from, rather than having proposed such deal to, the undercover agents-- in suggesting that the story revealed "less than meets the eye." Perhaps ABC doesn't realize that such sting operations are one of the most reliable methods for "connecting the dots" without waiting for potential plotters to connect the plots. --Jim Wrenn,
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Aug. 13, 2003:
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Re: Fox versus Franken
for phrases he's yankin'..
For starters, I'm proud to confess
for news I think Fox is the best,
and next I'll admit
contempt for the twit,
Al Franken, before I progress.
Reports are that Fox has filed suit
on Al 'cause his book title used
the phrase "fair and balanced"
to tout his unbalanced
perceptions and anti-Fox views.
Though gagging, I'm forced to confess
for once Franken's argument's best--
for freedom of speech
a satirist needs
to mock works by others possessed.
And so I hope Fox reassesses
it's suit for the phrase it possesses
and has the benignity
to end my indignity
in touting Al's right to infest.
····
Here's a link to a news
article about Fox's suit against Franken. --Jim Wrenn,
Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Aug. 11, 2003:
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The news-frenzy feedings
on crim'nal proceedings. .
If more who for "news" reconnoiter
displayed a refusal to loiter
on shows that are feeding
on crim'nal proceedings,
'twould end infomercials for lawyers.
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As a realist, I know the reason in the guise of presenting news and/or analysis,
so many "news" channel programs continually present speculation about
criminal cases involving sensationalism generated by the fame (or notoriety) of
a defendant and/or a tabloid view of the circumstances of the case-- it's
"the ratings, stupid." My wish would be that the audience for
such programming-- which covers the gamut from drivel to outrageously
prejudicial coverage-- would dramatically diminish and that the demands for
regular, broader coverage of news about matters of far greater importance (i.e.,
more, deeper and broader coverage about Iraq, the Middle East, the war on
terror, North Korea, Iran, economics, etc.). Whenever a news channel I'm
watching begins doing more than merely reporting new facts about a criminal
case, I switch channels. That's my one-person vote against these
infomercials for "high-profile" lawyers engaging in irresponsible
speculation about criminal cases while piously disdaining the very conduct in
which they're engaging. Not only do such infomercials for
"high-profile" lawyers marginalize coverage of news of far broader and
deeper implications, but they also are breeding increasing disrespect for the
legal system, undermining the rules of evidence, and impairing the system's
ability to impanel juries of intelligent people with views untainted by
publicity about such cases.
--Jim Wrenn,
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The
King nearly died on Larry King Live
(limerick 20001102-01)
Frank Luntz, where are you when we need
you?
Last night Larry King gave us his views.
He sputtered his words
and prob'ly made turds
when Ross endorsed Bush on the King shew**
If King
had been wired to your meter
when Ross described Bush as a leader
the lines on your chart
would show Larry's heart
quite nearly became a non-beater.
King's panic was clear the whole time,
but when was the funniest time?
The end of the show,
when King asked Perot:
"You think that you might change your mind?"
**Fellow
Boomers will remember that "shew" was Ed Sullivan's pronunciation of
"show."
© 2000 --Inspired by
my observation of King's obvious panic (on Larry King Live on 11-02-00) when--
contrary to everyone's expectations and the implications of CNN's promos that
Perot would make an important presidential "endorsement" on Larry King
Live-- Perot endorsed Bush and castigated Gore rather than vice-versa.
ABC News has standards for
views:
Rats get exposure but moles get enclosure. (limerick
below)(20000925-01)
Our new name at ABC News:
.
Avoid Balanced Campaigning News!
Expose a rat found,
keep moles underground
when we think they're ugly to view.
The rat-story made us quite fearful
and so we gave viewers an ear-full.
The mole found by Judd
as news is a dud
because it does not make us fearful.
Gore's worker who claimed there's a mole
now says it's a gag that he told,
and Gore's folks berate
the prank as third-rate.
(But where have we heard that before?)
© 2000 --Inspired by ABC News'
apparent editorial decision that Jackie
Judd's 09-24-00 report about an alleged Gore-campaign mole in the Bush
campaign is newsworthy enough to be posted on its website but not newsworthy
enough to be included in its broadcast news, which recently accorded a
four-and-a-half-minute lead to Gore-campaign allegations that a Republican
commercial's sequential fragmentation of the word "bureaucrats"
constituted an effort to subliminally identify Democrats as "rats."
The next debate test will be
Pee B. S. (limerick 20000916-01)
Jim Lehrer will soon moderate
the next Presidential Debate,
but will he ask Gore
to tell us once more
why Bill was the greatest of great?
© 2000
Dan
Rather-Not ... suspect any Democrat (limerick 20000915-01)
When someone sent Downey a tape
of George Dubya's practice debate,
we didn't hear Dan
proclaim to the land
that surely Al Gore is to blame.
© 2000 --Inspired by Dan Rather's stunning
loss of insight into the world of political dirty tricks by failing to assert
that Democrat dirty tricks must have been the method by which Gore's
speech-coach (former Representative Tom Downey) inexplicably received a tape of
Dubya's practice debate, even though as recently as on 08-18-00 Rather strongly
implied that on the eve of Gore's acceptance speech, Republicans had
"leaked" a story that federal judges had authorized a new grand-jury
to investigate whether Clinton had lied under oath. See PoliSat's 08-18-00
limerick about that story.
Please! Just the facts without government hacks
(limerick)
So few in the media try
to focus on issues, and why?
They must entertain
'cause viewers disdain
reports on the who-what-where-why.
Despite this quite obvious norm
they clamor for campaign "reform"
to limit the news
of activists' views
with rules to which they must conform.
Since most voters' study of facts
is quite indisputably lax,
political spots
on programs they watch
are needed to tell them the facts.
Empowering government hacks
would not keep our freedom intact.
We would be fools
to let them make rules
on who, when and how to state facts.
© 2000 --Inspired by the media's
continuing drumbeat for campaign-finance "reform."
The Who? Me-dia?
(a limerick 20000820-01)
How many media mavens
condemned their untrue speculation
that Dubya's campaign
had smeared Clinton's name?
Say "None," and you've earned an ovation.
© 2000 --Inspired by absence of any serious
self-criticism by news media sources who initially implied the Bush Campaign was
the source of the leak about the new grand jury being impaneled to investigate
Clinton's lies in the Paula Jones case. See also our Daily
Update for 08-18-00.
Dan Rather-Blather falsely
smears Independent Counsel,
Republicans and the Bush Campaign. (a limerick)
The CBS News and Dan Rather
engaged in their typical blather
and falsely portrayed
the lawyer, Bob Ray,
as leaker of grand-jury matters.
Rather quite smugly proclaimed
Republicans must be to blame
for leaks of a probe
of lies Clinton sowed
denying the Paula-Jones claims.
'Twas well-orchestrated said Dan
by right-wing-conspiracy hands
to taint Alpha Gore
with scandal once more
while speaking to all in the land.
Before blaming Ray for this perfidy
It's clear Rather owed him the courtesy
to check with the court
and learn that the source
was Democrat Judge Richard Cudahy. .
© 2000 --Inspired by 08-18-00
Associated Press report demonstrating the falsity of Dan
Rather's un-sourced assertion on 08-17-00 blatantly implying that an August
17, 2000, report that the three-judge court supervising Independent Counsel
Robert Ray had granted his request for a new grand jury to be impaneled to
investigate lies told by Clinton in the Paula Jones case was a "carefully
orchestrated, politically motivated leak ... [by Republicans to embarrass Gore
just] ... hours before [he was] set to accept his party's nomination in the most
important speech of his political life...." We've preserved the text
of Rather's false, un-sourced assertion in PoliSat's archives as an example of Rather-Blather
followed by the text of the Associate Press story demonstrating its falsity.
Campaign "Reforms"
ignore all the norms. (limerick) (08-02-00)
The Media kick-up a storm
for Campaigning Finance "Reform,"
and say campaigns spend
so much from their friends,
it makes all the people forlorn.
And what's the "reform" that
is wanted
for people no more to be daunted?
A campaign reform-tax
to fund public broadcasts
so people can be self-informed.
To test a proposal for feeding,
the proof of the pudding's in eating.
Since ratings are low
on campaign-news shows,
the people are somewhere else feeding.
Since most folks won't watch a
convention,
and candidates need their attention,
they must pay for spots
on programs they watch
or else they won't get their attention.
© 2000 (du20000802-01) --Inspired by
these facts: (1)
The broadcast "news" media
are not providing any extensive
coverage of the Republican Convention (and surely will likewise not provide any
extensive coverage of the upcoming Democratic Convention), which virtually any
interested citizen could watch "for free," and the reason the
broadcast "news" media are not providing any extensive coverage is
that they know that their rating would plummet because only the small percentage
of people who are political junkies would watch; (2)
Although some of the cable "news" media are providing extensive
coverage, comments by anchors and pundits on virtually every such cable-news
program have made it clear that the ratings for such coverage are at
rock-bottom.
Media Anxiety (a
limerick) (du20000731-01)
On Monday, July thirty-first,
the media seem in a lurch
because they're unsure
if Powell can cure
Republicans' black-support dearth.
© 2000
Time/Warner's Levin
... slanders U.S. again
as Gerald Levin ... proclaims Jiang Zemin
to be a good Time/Warner friend.. (a limerick)
(du20000727-01)
For fleeing from left and right "isms"
the bridge 'cross those human-rights schisms
was made safe from harm
by American arms
and also by capitalism.
So that makes it all the more shame
that Time/Warner's boss has proclaimed
American culture
is now like a vulture
and somehow it needs to be tamed.
And whom does he call a "good friend"?
He proudly proclaims "Jiang Zemin"--
who doesn't regret
Tienamen deaths,
and says they would do it again.
© 2000 (Inspired by Drudge
Report article dated 07-27-00 quoting Time/Warner CEO, Gerald Levin, as
having recently characterized America's post-cold-war influence as "American cultural imperialism."
Maybe he's really a citizen of France.)
Pretextual Smears.
(a limerick) (20000710-01)
The minds of those folks at the
Globe
have now been completely
disrobed.
Jacoby they smeared
with pretext so clear
that
they
should be roundly deplored.
© 2000 ---Inspired by
07-10-00
statement
by Jeff Jacoby about the Boston Globe's
suspension of his column for alleged failures to include appropriate
attributions in his column on the risks undertaken and hardships endured by the
signers of the Declaration of Independence..
Announcement/Thank-You from creators of video parody of Elian's seizure::.(du20000519-01)
" Looks like we won! The AP officially said they will not come after us if
we put the Elian video back up on our site, SO WE DID! We've also got some other
new stuff going on there, so check it out at: http://www.sixsite.com/bonrop.
thanks again for the support! --sean & chris"
Reprise of our 2000-04-28-01
Daily Update mocking
the AP & supporting the parody:
APocrisy
On Parade
(AP Hypocrisy)
(a limerick)
The AP is eager to preach
the value of having free speech
Except when a speaker
or parody tweaker
incorporates pics from AP
One need not know
science for rockets
to know the AP makes its profits
Selling its pictures
of folks in dire strictures
without paying them any profits.
So why should AP get upset
and recklessly make foolish threats
at Lathrop and Bonner
whose parody genre
used pics of young Elian's "arrest"?
If you want the
AP to hear
your views then just simply click here**.
They need to learn
they're way out of turn
instilling those comics with fear.
And if you're inclined to support
good parody as a safe sport
Tell Lathrop and Bonner,
"Continue your genre"
by mocking those dumb AP dorks
© 2000 Inspired by
the Associated Press's ridiculous reaction to Lathrop and Bonner using the AP's
Elian-at-gunpoint picture to make a video parody of the scene., which they call
"elian, true ... aka stormtroopers,
true." For more information about this
controversy and to learn how/where to contact Lathrop and Bonner and/or the AP
regarding this matter, click
here. (**That
link is no longer active)
Mike, the
Confessor re Hillary's Mysteries
(a limerick)(20000505-01)
Yesterday, Fox's O'Reilly
questioned Mike Wallace quite spryly--
seeking to know
why Wallace's show
ignored Hill'ry's myst'ries entirely.
At first, Wallace echoed the choir:
"Such 'old news' has lost all its fire."
But when he was pressed,
Mike Wallace confessed
that ev'ryone knows she's a liar.
And then Mike confessed it is true,
that Hill'ry should be interviewed
But then in a ruse,
he made the excuse
that she's too estranged from the truth.
But when did Mike Wallace get tired
of
trying to show who's a liar?
For so many years,
it's been his career--
exposing folks trapped in such mire.
© 2000 ("Yesterday" was 05-04-00)
Reflections on the White House
Correspondents' Dinner (04-29-00). (a
limerick)
At dinner with those correspondents
whose White House connections are prominent.
Clinton displayed
the way that he plays
reporters like musical instruments
© 2000
(du20000501-01)
White House Correspondents'
Dinner--
A
Tour De Force in Self-Adulation.
(limericks du20000429-01)
The dinner for those correspondents
who crave all the White House resplendence
reveals what they are:
just wannabe stars
much more than good sources of evidence.
Conceived to display to the nation
their
talents at self-deprecation,
it has become
like Oscar for some
who wallow in
self-adulation
© 2000
APocrisy On Parade
(AP Hypocrisy) (a limerick)(du20000428-01)
The AP is eager to preach
the value of having free speech
except when a speaker
or parody tweaker
incorporates pics from AP.
One need not know science for rockets
to know the AP makes its profits
selling its pictures
of folks in dire strictures
without paying them any
profits.
So why should AP get upset
and recklessly make foolish threats
at Lathrop and Bonner
whose parody genre
used pics of young Elian's
"arrest"?
If you want the AP to hear
your views then just simply
click here.
They need to learn
they're way out of turn
instilling those comics with fear.
And if you're inclined to support
good parody as a safe sport,t
Tell Lathrop and Bonner,
"Continue your genre"
by mocking those dumb
AP dorks
© 2000 Inspired by
the Associated Press's ridiculous reaction to Lathrop and Bonner using the AP's
Elian-at-gunpoint picture to make a video parody of the scene.,
which they call "elian, true
... aka stormtroopers, true." For more
information about this controversy and to learn how/where to contact Lathrop and
Bonner and/or the AP regarding this matter, click
here.
ABC News--
Pioneers in
Journalistic Expertise. (limerick du20000405-01)
The new name
for ABC News:
Advance
Big Celebrities'
Views.
There was a time
when just news was fine,
but now it's just show-business views.
In news there is too much
reliance
on claims by politicized science.
The news folks should know
that stars just don't know
good science from PC
compliance.
DiCaprio's sure to purvey
the pantheists' view of Earth Day--
contending that Man
belongs to the land
instead of the opposite way
© 2000
(Quoted by Brit Hume on Fox
News Channel Special Report on 04-06-00 with permission)
Worship of
Celebrity/Notoriety.
(limericks du20000325-01)
The networks and programs for "news"
treat Oscar predictions as
"news"
with stories about
the folks who camped-out
to see "stars" from
sidewalks as pews.
The networks exhibit disdain
for news and instead entertain--
'cause fluff gets the ratings
and news gets berating--
the viewers are who we
must blame
© 2000
Poetic Views on Things in the
News
Among those whose writing is best,
Charles Osgood surpasses the rest.
There isn't a time
he can't make a rhyme
that's clever and passes the test.
There should be a Rhyme Hall
of Fame
where first should be entered his name.
His rhyming is flawless
without being thoughtless,
which makes him the best in
the game.
© 2000
What you see is what you'll
get
(du 1999-12-02)
The media claims there's a storm
for campaign
financing reform.
They claim they'll present
each campaign event
but sound-bites remain as the
norm
© 1999.
