I'll see you on the other side

Moon River By Robin Quinlan(3)

Dreamer

Night Vision Green

It's not what you think. Not submarines but sub-editors, the engine of the newsroom in the mainstream print media. I should no, declaring an interest here. The media gets a lot of stick and might get a lot more if there were none of these chubby checkers who are often the last line of defence. If people want a more diverse media, then what is to stop them setting up their own media enterprise. Ofcourse it would have to make money under the present mercantile system...
Here's the lyrics...  I'm a man of words, guess you'd call me a hack. Since my first auction mart I've never looked back. Fine merino for Gisburn, where's the angle in that? But you have to start somewhere. If you want to ski in Gstad...Chorus Shit shovelling, shovelling away, Your eyes like drink bottles by the close of play, Wired up to a snack bar and glued to a screen, making sure there's no errors...that the copy is clean...I'm a man of few words now...the newsroom chat's high tech now, all emojis and that...Our language is dying ruled by text speak and driven by cliches, when the politicos speak, spinng half-truths and falsehoods, with a penchant for lying to the masses and meek, faith hope and charity, what the hell happened to clarity? It makes the blood boil think I'll sharpen the pen. Time's running out, the deadline's at ten, if I go 10 minutes over, they go nuclear then...

I'll see you on the other side

Andrew Randan

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