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Fox news is covering our love story

it is the sordid content

viewers dine on before dessert

 

 

erin-cilberto

4/18/23

© 2023 jacob erin-cilberto


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That's me Cilberto
I watch tv and the subject matter is inappropriate,
yet I eat right before the screen, LOL

---1809 Black Plague December

Posted 1 Year Ago


jacob erin-cilberto

1 Year Ago

Yes, eating before the screen...but watching the news upsets the stomach.
j.
1809 Black Plague December

1 Year Ago

I know. Guilty.
Sounds like pornography to me. Know it when we see it!

Posted 1 Year Ago


jacob erin-cilberto

1 Year Ago

ha ha...
really????????
So true, so true. But only when the focus is on someone else other than ourselves for that's an invasion of privacy lol.

Posted 1 Year Ago


jacob erin-cilberto

1 Year Ago

exactly, andrew,
exactly.
A sickening fact but true. Some media outlets can’t wait to focus on the sordid and the negative. And sadly that seems to be what many people want to listen to. I just reach for the controller to switch off. So much said here dear J.

Chris

Posted 1 Year Ago


jacob erin-cilberto

1 Year Ago

I switch to binging on one of my old series, thank you very much.
j.
1809 Black Plague December

1 Year Ago

aww Jacob you arr so cute
Fox or CNN, two sides of the same coin. I saw a CNN broadcast where they refuted eyewitness accounts and actual film footage with a supposed "expert" who was two thousand miles away when the event happened. I thought, wow, how is that even possible, to say something else happened when it's on film and you have recorded eyewitness accounts from your own camera crew? But that's exactly what they did. The "news" has seemingly become whatever spin your political leanings want to put on the story rather than actual events. I really miss Walter Cronkite telling us, "That's the way it is" and letting us form our own opinions about the story reported.

Posted 1 Year Ago


jacob erin-cilberto

1 Year Ago

Yes, you could plug in any news media....and yes, Walter, or Howard K. Smith, Huntley and Brinkley.... read more
FGFRANKLIN

1 Year Ago

Oh! David Brinkley wrote a book i SO enjoyed, "Washington at War" about WWII and the response in DC... read more
Perhaps tonight they will just show a test card saying please standby, while we look down the sofa for any spare three quarters of a billion for our latest libel payout! 😊
It couldn't have happened to a... No, not nicer... A bigger monster! 😊
And now I am wondering what is for dessert. 😊

Posted 1 Year Ago


jacob erin-cilberto

1 Year Ago

yes, so true...thank you Lorry,
j.
Sometimes, such criminal things happen in relationships, they become a spectacle too, fit to be covered by Fox News. The world thrives on voyeurism now. People are willing to lap up just anything, be it the most sordid ever to make their evenings more interesting.

Posted 1 Year Ago


jacob erin-cilberto

1 Year Ago

seems to be the case now...yes...thank you, divya,
j.
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And isn't that the nature of modern news now? They salivate over all the gossip and controversial stuff instead of focusing on the truth of telling things of relevance as they need to be reported. Fox news is especially guilty of taking sides and not reporting objectively. Somehow I doubt your love stories were simple TV dinner standard, digested before a bowl of ice cream. Love that idea, though.

Posted 1 Year Ago


jacob erin-cilberto

1 Year Ago

Yes, they are pretty much all the same....I just picked one for the poem, but all guilty of sensatio.. read more

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jacob erin-cilberto

Carbondale, IL



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Originally from Bronx, NY, I live in Carbondale, Illinois...teach English at a community college and have been writing and publishing poetry since 1970. I am here to read for inspiration from other po.. more..

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