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AGENDA BENDER

I'm on what's called an agenda bender -

I head unasked to join the action;

I'll be your ready and able attender

At any display of dissatisfaction

 

The media are fans of fakery

They're ready to make up stories

They'd see meat in a bakery!

(And they love to blame the Tories).

 

I watch the daily mainstream news

For the expected biased depiction

Of who did what - that they can use

As their factual version of fiction.

 

I'm ready for my next agenda bender

With no lack of complaint or cause -

And nothing gets returned to sender;

Your moan's mine and mine is yours!

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M.C. Newberry

Tue 30th Mar 2021 15:19

As for the role of the media in "inflaming" situations, check the
view of its reporting of the recent event on Clapham Common and
the criticism from the watchdog - HM Inspectorate of Policing and
Fire and Rescue - about how the unfolding situation was depicted...and responded to by certain opportunistic politicians
mentioned by name.

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