![]() An Echo Chamber For The Powerful!A Poem by COLLYMORE![]() The Fourth Estate has largely subverted itself to the dictates of those who control our national state.![]() By You call yourselves journalists but that’s not how I see you as and therefore don’t agree with you in the least since the term glorified and overpaid stenographers more readily come to mind and is most apt description, I feel, of the vast majority of you who work for these western, mega-corporate outlets or their likeminded doctrinal and amalgamated state-owned brothers-in-arms’ organisations like the BBC " sycophantic purveyors of wilful misinformation as well as a cataclysmic array of half-truths liberally interspersed with downright lies and malicious fabrications which are assiduously, perniciously and persistently reworked to convey a narrative that suits the dictated agendas of those who imperiously yank your chains of compliant subservience attendant with their comprehensive and unrelenting control of your avaricious purse strings. Get a life for God’s sake! Try and remember, if your minds aren’t addled or permanently contaminated by ravenous greed or irreversibly tarnished by collective stupidity, what the Fourth Estate is actually all about, then go out and get as far away as possible from the cosy comfort of your office armchairs and courageously do the job you’re supposed to and that discerning members of the public expect you to. Not unconscionably languish in the stinking sewer of ostentatious dissemblance compounded by the cynical betrayal of those whom you routinely con while painstakingly pretending to be what you patently aren’t. For I am also a journalist and it absolutely disgusts me how you behave, and all the more reason therefore for me and other real journalists like myself who feel like I do to candidly speak out and act to put and end to this insane farce. © Stanley V. Collymore 1 October 2013. Footnote: To honestly and intrepidly inform the public it purports to serve is surely one of the cardinal remits of the Fourth Estate. So why then are so many journalists unconscionably, venally and blatantly disregarding these core elements of their profession? Is this to do with incompetence, greed, laziness or even rank stupidity on their part or more aptly, as I believe, that these media charlatans aren’t really journalists at all but simply glorified and rather overpaid stenographers and therefore they and what they regurgitate should be treated with absolute caution. © 2013 COLLYMORE |
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Added on October 1, 2013 Last Updated on October 1, 2013 Tags: incompetence, lying, hypocrisy, double standards, greed Author![]() COLLYMORECambridge, Cambridgeshire, United KingdomAboutAcademic, Journalist, Writer. I'm a highly intelligent, articulate and well-educated human being with an intuitive but enterprising sense of responsibility and a strong moral compass that instincti.. more..Writing
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