We can make news by starting a 12-step anonymous group for adrenalin driven
news media addicts. "I do get such a buzz off Matt Drudge news reports -
goes good with coffee, etc. - and I always feel hung over & ugly when it's
done. I will appreciate anyone's support in getting out from under Drudge
and back to reality." Etc.
Poets unite against news and death. Let it rip.
Stephen V
> Yes, can't pull away, must pull away. Must watch,
> mustn't watch. And all the while acknowledgement (must be paid): given the
> constraints... the constant force for concision on newscasts to boil down a
> flood of information into a "meaningful" trickle seems to (woefully) cut
> down on free speech. Yet, we still watch, hopeful critters we is!
>
> Chrs,
> G.
>
>
>> Thanks Gerald. There are times I'd like to go the route of our friend's
>> 80 year old mother, who says that watching the news just isn't worth
>> it, but I (& obviously you) can't pull away from it, I suspect.
>>
>> Doug
>> On 24-Feb-05, at 8:37 AM, Gerald Schwartz wrote:
>>
>>> No, Doug... seems as though you've watched
>>> just enough to be able to break through to the
>>> other side! And upon your return you've brought
>>> back a telling snap.
>>>
>>> Gerald S.
>>>
>>>> I've been watching too much TV news....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> what questions pool
>>>> behind that screen
>>>> in those depths
>>>>
>>>> what answers
>>>>
>>>> a kind of cloud
>>>> of words
>>>> that slip/slide
>>>> shift their shape
>>>> so airily drop
>>>> let a kind of
>>>> fog of intention
>>>> precipitate darkening
>>>>
>>>> nobody knows
>>>> & nobody sees
>>>>
>>>> nobody knows
>>>> what's free
>>>>
>>>> Wednesday 23.02.05
>>>>
>>>> Douglas Barbour
>>>> Department of English
>>>> University of Alberta
>>>> Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
>>>> (780) 436 3320
>>>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
>>>>
>>>> Reserved books. Reserved land. Reserved flight.
>>>> And still property is theft.
>>>>
>>>> Phyllis Webb
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
>> Department of English
>> University of Alberta
>> Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
>> (780) 436 3320
>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
>>
>> care to be more
>> precise about whatever
>> it is you are
>> saying, I said
>>
>> Bill Manhire
>>
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