If You Were... a Reporter

 

If you were a reporter, what kind of reporter would you be?

Would the words you choose be just and free?

Would your heart be guided by a chronic lack of trust,

as clean as a hound dog's tooth?

Would you be a newshawk on a scumhunt?

Would you be blunt,

affiliated with the truth,

and only secondarily with a brand, a side, a team?

Would you be resolved to swim upstream?

 

Or would you be a mouthpiece giving people what they need

and mention parenthetically (or, better yet, remove),

like some cog in a machine,

the FDA did NOT approve that Pfizer Inc. vaccine?

Would you demean all those who disagree,

calling names to discredit non-believers —

uncritical, not lenient?

Would you point that finger feeling right,

dubbing them Deceivers just because.

Just because it's more convenient?

 

Would you praise a rabbit hole and never care to look?

Would acceptance be your goal?

Silenced is good

Never shout

Would you dig and dig until the truth comes pouring out?

Would you write a post about being human?

Would you scan that script,

Collective Truman?

Frame and blame,

frame and blame, Mommy,

loyal to the Ministry of Truth,

compliant with the notion that all must think alike

like a proper commie?

Truth is pain

Logic is fear

Fear breeds compliance.

 

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