Conspirators

April 27th speech by JFK..."WITHOUT debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed...and NO REPUBLIC CAN SURVIVE! That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the first amendment...THE ONLY business in America specifically protected by the constitution...not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and sentimental, not to simply 'give the public what it wants'....BUT TO INFORM, TO AROUSE, TO REFLECT, TO STATE OUR DANGERS AND OUR OPPORTUNITIES, TO INDICATE OUR CRISES AND OUR CHOICES, TO LEAD, MOLD EDUCATE AND SOMETIMES EVEN ANGER PUBLIC OPINION."

Yet now our press uses its power to distort the news to reflect their own political agendas. DF

CONSPIRATORS

Throw the window open wide

Let not the secrets in a White House hide

Shout from the rooftops, Hark!

Let no people be left in the dark

No leader shall be quiet

Lest the people will rise to riot

No destructive agenda will sneak through

While we have our national news

But what, pray tell, has happened here?

Bias contaminates our curious ear

The nightly news spreads his lies

And have become his closest allies

The first amendment meant to protect the press

Has added to the citizens' stress

A leader ruins us with his lies

And the newscasters are his alibi

Unlikely conspirators who will fall our nation

Feeding bias reports with corrupt sensation

The White House and the media combined

To mold like clay the people's minds

DroneFingers