Cartoonist Dave Granlund at davegranlund.com
Politicians hawk their brand, | To the media talking heads
Snake oil purveyors | who clamor for the latest dirt
whose loyalty is sold | because dirt sells advertising
to the highest bidder… | where truth doesn’t matter…
vile bottom feeders | just don’t call yourselves journalists!
kat ~ 30 March 2016
To learn more about the Cleave poem or to give it a try yourself, click HERE to Jane Dougherty’s poetry challenge.
like mercury colliding... 
March 31st, 2016 at 12:10 am
Have to very much agree with your opinion on this matter. I think what they do is called slander.
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March 31st, 2016 at 12:31 am
Out and out lies some of it…smh!
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March 31st, 2016 at 12:27 am
So agree! And I have a degree in Journalism and sometimes I am ashamed of it.
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March 31st, 2016 at 12:30 am
It is not the profession Kathryn, but those who don’t respect its calling…😕
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March 31st, 2016 at 2:58 am
splendidly done … very effective use of the form indeed!
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March 31st, 2016 at 11:50 am
Thank you so much! I gave it another go. I really do like this poetry form! 😊
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April 1st, 2016 at 6:15 am
🙂 It is really a cool form indeed … I’ll be looking for the new one …
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March 31st, 2016 at 3:07 am
Very well done! And I wouldn’t call it controversial in the least. Some might even say it states the obvious 🙂
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March 31st, 2016 at 6:13 am
Thanks Jane! Only a touch of blood sweat over this one, but definitely challenging! 😊
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March 31st, 2016 at 6:31 am
It either works or it doesn’t. It seemed to me that if I got the idea past line three it would work. If I stalled at line three it was going nowhere.
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March 31st, 2016 at 11:10 am
I tried another…will link up here soon. I agree. Once I get the first three lines or so…then I set about completing one side or the other and fill in the other side. Otherwise my brain heads into a loop-de-loop trying to make something sensible of the whole thing! My second try is called Gone. Posting in a minute for you here. 🙂
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March 31st, 2016 at 11:20 am
I’m glad you’re sticking with it. I’ve been wrestling with another one on and off all afternoon. It just about makes sense now.
Multiple submissions are welcome 🙂
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March 31st, 2016 at 11:25 am
just sent. 🙂
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March 31st, 2016 at 8:14 am
It is utterly ridiculous! I am actually speechless.
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March 31st, 2016 at 11:08 am
Absolute lunacy!!!
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March 31st, 2016 at 10:27 am
It stopped being news when they cared more about the circulation than they did about the story. Now, it’s nothing more than sensationalism (dare I say yellow journalism??) than it is news. No thanks.
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March 31st, 2016 at 11:07 am
I agree. And a population with an attention span of gnats, ravenous for sensational “reality” clips only feeds the beast!
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March 31st, 2016 at 4:08 pm
So true.
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March 31st, 2016 at 1:46 pm
They are really a tiresome bunch but I think it’s because there are people who are interested in their sensational nonsense.
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March 31st, 2016 at 1:57 pm
To be sure! The audience must be there to keep them n business!
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March 31st, 2016 at 4:42 pm
I love this Kat!
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March 31st, 2016 at 7:26 pm
Haha! I really like that poem form. Thanks Lynn! 😊
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April 5th, 2016 at 3:49 am
[…] Let Them Eat Dirt! | like mercury colliding… […]
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April 5th, 2016 at 6:44 am
Love your poetic rant! Well done!
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April 5th, 2016 at 8:51 am
Thank you Merril…sometimes you just gotta vent! 🙂
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April 5th, 2016 at 4:45 pm
Indeed. 🙂
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April 5th, 2016 at 11:20 am
I try me best to tune them out. But sometimes it hard..
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April 5th, 2016 at 1:49 pm
I know! especially with a 24 hour news cycle! 🙂
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