Disc Jockey Journalists Vile Propaganda

Disc jockeys of the 1950's and 60's spun for the record companies taking payola. Today MSM journalists spin vile propaganda for their corporate owners. Too many lies told too often.

News Item:

“Cardi B Dispels Payola Rumors After "Up" Hits No. 1 on Billboard 100

Cardi B took to Instagram where she fired back at critics claiming that “Up” hit the top of the Billboard 200 chart due to radio-play payola.”

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Disc Jockey Journalist's Vile Propaganda

Payola is still with us late and soon,
The race to the top ten is money under the table 
putting the right vibes racing through the mic,
pay the disc jockey what you must ,
it started in the fifties ,
the sixties,
and rolls on today 
pay to play
pay to play.

The cuckoo is off the clock 
The prisoners elude the dock
The cock walks the walk.
The media is a parody
Of its former self, 
Spinning wars and  moral destitution
For Barbarians in business suits.  

Payola is now but a minor crime
It has done its time
We have moved 
into more sordid somber times 
Disc jockey journalists
take pay to play
take pay to play.

In the gaudy temples 
Of corporate propaganda
The lights go up  
The cameras roll
The teleprompter scrolls
And the DJ journalists emit their sleazy sounds
As high priests of bogus news and tainted views.

The news is as carefully coiffed
As the muttering mannequins
Frozen in pseudo gravitas.
Punctilious questions asked and answered,
No answer questioned, no lie challenged
Payola guests serving payola journalists
Rounding out their pocket books,
Contemplating retirement, 
In the hallowed Valhalla 
Of whored journalistic souls. 
   
Cardi-B the esteemed rapper
With bullet tits, a golden throat
dancing with melodious words--
the beat goes on. 
While vile disc jockey journalists
sell their souls 
in the cause of buying more bullets,
building more bombs,
depleted uranium,
more cluster bombs, 
more fragmentation. 

Where are the witnesses
For the prosecution?
Muted, numbed by the roar 
Of dismembered times 
In dark forests of disbelief,
Chilled, damp,
Unable to speak. 

When lies go unchallenged  
It comes to this,
It comes to this,
The Nazi wolves
Are packing for war. 
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Intellectual disgrace
Stares from every human face,
And the seas of pity lie
Locked and frozen in each eye**

** W H Auden, In memory of W.B.Yeats, 1939

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" The media in the United States [and Canada] effectively represents the interests of corporate America, and ... the media elite are the watchdogs of what constitutes acceptable ideological messages, the parameters of news and information content, and the general use of media resources.” Peter Phillips, Project Censored, 1998

"Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society -- one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security." - Michael Lerner, journalist

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