Save the Fish Wrappers

Stormy cyber winds are blowing.
Journalism’s undergoing
Advertising slumps at papers,
Many running lean on vapors,
Risking fiscal detonations
While the younger generations
Rather watch TV and websites
For their news in speedy sound bytes.

What We Don't Know

For weeks it’s overshadowed other news.
The press, some feel, have overplayed swine flu
To sell more papers, reach more viewers whose
Obsessive worries, heightened fears accrue.

But how can mainstream media ignore
The Centers for Disease Control’s advice
To play it safe and think the worst-case more,
Instead of laying back and rolling dice?

F--- This S---!

The U.S. f---ing Supreme Court
Upheld a ban on words like s---
If broadcast even once. In short,
George Carlin’s list stays illeg--.

Dense Fog over Lower Manhattan

Dumb and dumber doesn’t say it.
Dumbest, neither, does it justice.
Air Force One, knows any dimwit,
Has agendas plain as Kansas.

Why, then, keep New Yorkers clueless
As to why this massive airplane
Would, like those that overwhelmed us,
Buzz Manhattan? Who’s the lamebrain?

What Goes Around

Torture stinks in every state.
To stop it, detainees relate
A falsehood questioners don’t know,
Then pause to find out if it’s so.

And if they can’t, they’ve later found
The information got, unsound.
And so they did more harm than good
With bad intent misunderstood.

Bo's Mojo

Saccharine though the news bits are,
Overblown week after week,
Bo the White House dog is our
Icon more ideal than chic.