Roll up, roll up, take a seat
For tonight’s performance blaring
Blood-trails shopping trolley thieves,
corporate fraud and pay-cuts scaring.
Watch the breakdown, meet the cast
See the outline of the acts
False-flag gasbag outrage shouting,
politicians fine-print pacts.
Death-toll mounting Murdoch counting
ratings by the office box,
Appetite for dulling light
sated not by goldilocks.
Horror horror, epidemic
Ice-crazed who raised terror youth,
Flick the channel, propaganda
Do their will in voting booth.
Apple Android China trade-deals
Take your eyes from Silicon
AI biometric data,
Soon they could turn outrage on.
Feel-good puppies kiddie smiles
Producer wraps the evening’s show
Think the way you’re meant to think
Know just what they’ll let you know.
This piece was created for an assignment, working with the idea of catalogues. I’m exploring how the evening news program is not only a catalogue in terms of its listing of different items, but its commidification and monetisation of what used to be journalism.
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