Born in 1951, I've seen it all, from Huntley-Brinkley to Walter Cronkite to Harry Reasoner to Eric Severeid , Paul Harvey to Johnny Carson to Merv Griffin to Sam?! Ervin to . . . all that mishmash that happened in the '80's, 90's, Ted Koppel, Geraldo Rivera . . . then came the polarizing ages, Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, Hilaary dillery dock while the mouse ran up the clock . . . out the door to smartphone skullduggery mob-logic thuggery and so on and so on what else is new and what's it to you anyway?!
So Twitter and Facebook destroyed it all! Good riddance? Oh now I get it. Now I see where this is going!
I mean, just sayin' the TwitnFkbook knocked it all down a peg or two on the pecking order of modern consciousness. 140 blips per brainwave then 240 bottles of fear in the wall take one down pass it around 250 bottles of fear in the wall.
As for investigative journalism, that function is performed now by Congressional committees, with their cheering squad at WaPo.
But hey that WaPo is still making a gallant efffort to fulfill its ongoing Woodward and Bernstein mission of saving Washington from itself and saving America from insurrectioning Republicans, of which GrandOleParty I used to be one.
Meanwhile NYT keeps plugging along, decade after decade with all the news thats fit to print while the rest of the world uses print for fish-wrap or nostalgic fix for us ole boomers who still remember having lunch in a diner while reading the Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Boston Globe, Atlanta Constitution as the world slowly gravitated to Huffington moments in Starbux wifi with morning coffee until all the javas became overpriced dessert treats accompanied by Apple grappling, Microsoft liftoff and then it came tumbling down to the handheld devolution swiped in by tweety mobs from SteveJobs, leaving Woz as a fading memory in a silicon dream . . .
NPR went solid left-center while Fox went whacko right and humpin' trump taught flyover-country goodoleboys how to be badass upstarts as public discourse gets tossed out to the landfill with all the plastic fantastic detritus while flackjacket whackos assault the steps of .gov by/of/for the people but hey my country tis of thee sweet land of liberty, of thee I weep while them multifarious multitudes of handheld devices instantaneously swipe away the home of the brave while honest Abe turns over in his grave.
The detritus of civilization gets dumped out to yonder landfill while the beast creeps toward Donbas and yeah i say unto thee Dontrump shreds right-flight white america in his hand; America strives desperately to tape the shreds back together that told us where we been where we are where the hell we goin meanwhile back at the Blacksea Vlad the Mad carelessly and o so wrecklessly flips the big trip-switch for doctor strangelove to launch that infamous long-awaited midnight ride yeehaw slide down obscene ord'nance he'll glide.
I'll under my desktop hide.
Now I'll lay me down to sleep, while my guitar it gently weeps.
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