This is not new! Fabrications by the anchors
on-network broadcasts are commonplace.
When there was still a semblance of journalism,
it was often embellished by adding
elaborate adjectives and adverbs.
They did not actually apply, except in the mind of
the announcer, who felt akin to the rich, the ambitious,
the poets, the pirates, and the kings.
Truth blows holes through their accounts.
People actually died, in one way or another,
because of their presence on the scene of a disaster,
protest-march, parade, war front or
other shock scene of the day.
They, in their suits, ties, coiffured hair, and bronzed skin,
sit in the majestic studios selling whatever narrative
they can get away with to advance their agenda.
They read stories prepared for this expressed reason,
often interjecting a personal affirmation, giving it that
“we’re all in this together” feeling. This is not journalism,
still, they receive awards for journalistic excellence and
are applauded by their peers who are also narrative readers.
Lies are repeated, the story grows, then more lies are added,
all to shine a favorable light on the liar.
The anchor, exposed recently lied about being in a helicopter
downed in Iraq by a rocket-propelled grenade.
He lied about seeing a body floating face down in the floodwater
outside his hotel room in New Orleans at the time of Katrina.
Pictures showed that the whole area was dry.
He lied about events in the Houston Astrodome during his
discourse of declaring who was responsible for this act of Nature.
He lied about being sick with dysentery caused by
drinking flood waters accidentally.
He saw fear, death, depravity, firearms being brandished,
looting and other nasty things, apparently from some room
in a five-star hotel in the French Quarter.
All claims have been refuted by police,
hospital personnel, health directors and the like.
Still, because of this outstanding work on Katrina,
he earned an anchor position, which was being vacated
at a network, by another myth raconteur.
Unfortunate as it is, that is the way it was.
STANSKI
FEB 9, 2023, ^
Steve Haarman 