House of Paine

moyers moment

 the lightening may have 
at long last struck
bill moyers 
where it matters 

in the thinker  

'news 
is what people
 want to keep hidden
 and everything else is publicity.' 


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there's a cruel logic to the next step here


since one must dig deeper 
daily  journalists can't make 
                 both deadlines and news 

the problem....

news is only news for about one day 

or better 
theres not enough time 
to both get at the truth 
and pre-empt 
 the pending  actions 

 and so
as old claude  use to say

wanna be a front line journalist ?

then each day 
ask yourself

" okay why  is this creep
 tellin  this  lie
at   this moment  ..."

and unless you wanna 
go under 

get submerged
  by the latest  shit wave
 u better
learn to   rely on 
a clear   klass prejudice 
to provide the necessary fast  answers


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okay  sure izzy stone 
proved time and again
the snow monsters leave 
very obvious tracks 

but his reportage
amounted to  
first draft retrospectives
 not notices 

izzy was a miracle

but not a mindshaft song bird

izzy reported the cave in after the explosion

when whats news is the pre blast gas build up 

and i don't mean

stopped clocks being right twice a day


to be listened to 
at hammer time
one must not cry wolf 
one must save the flairs for the real deal