The Paid For Press

 

The Paid For Press

 

What unjust word slips past,

A seeming misjudgment?

What canard allowed with a wink?

Who platforms the vile?

Are there two sides in reality,

When one is the people,

And the other is Mammon?

What service is performed,

When one serves corporate greed?

Is equality met at one percent?

Is the free press so paid for,

That it has abandoned principle,

And the masses it must inform?

Now that the cheat sits at the table,

Are we to eat the wormed offering it serves?

What value can be had thus?

A lie is not an opposing view.

A liar does not propose argument.

A lie is a lie,

No matter how loudly proclaimed,

Or how long or how often,

It is presented.

Raising the deceiver’s seat

To the elevated position,

Does not elevate the lie,

It merely gives it the appearance of reality,

But the actuality remains,

And always will be,

That the lie remains a lie,

And liar is still lying,

No matter the position granted to her.

And you are not getting away with this.

Your responsibility is still to the truth,

And to the people.

We are not pleased,

We are not allowing,

We are not buying.

You have a responsibility -

Get back to work.

 

Cliff Lake 3/25/2024

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