Who gave the media
The right to make policy?
To set world agenda
Through the focus
Of a lens,
Fine tuning
For dramatic effect,
Excluding
What doesn't fit
Desired costumery.
Homage accompanies
This selective path
Of space and sound:
When the ear is pulled wide
Discrimination falters...
"If They say so
It Must be so.
With few tools
To decipher staging,
Truth
Becomes a caprice
Hard to come by
In an age of
Packaged competing persuasions.
We often call truth
What grabs us
And spins us around.
Frazzled statesmen
Are not immune:
Bombarded by unsolvables,
Kneaded by constituents...
Media Selects
Policy Ensues.
[reprinted with permission]