network news
yellow journalism
court approved
The writing prompt for today is “yellow” I decided to write this senryu using the definition of yellow as follows:
dishonest in editorial comment and the presentation of news, especially in sacrificing truth for sensationalism:
Beware of what you see and even more of what you are told.
I hope that you , my dear readers, will question the veracity of what you see and/or read in the news. Verify the source and try and get primary data to interpret for yourself and make up your own mind.
Amen, good sir. Amen.
Thank you. I feel like some days I am preaching to the choir. 🙂
Eh, I dropped out of choir in my senior year. SAFE! 😛
(Very bad joke and just wanted to disclose that I do realize that it’s just an expression.)
LOL no problem my friend. I figured you knew.
There are two levels of danger in what passes for popular “journalism”. The first or more obvious is that you are being told what to think. As you correctly say, we can note this, reflect and come to our own conclusion. The second level is more insidious and thus perhaps even more dangerous. We are being presented with a topic to think about which as a consequence prevents us using the time to use our mind more constructively.