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Array ( [sid] => 70143 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => The Censored Press. [time] => 2004-11-04 16:15:27 [hometext] => [bodytext] => THE CENSORED PRESS…(©Peter Sprenkeler)

Vietnam…the first war into our lounge rooms beamed,
The press…unfettered…brought to us every grim detail.
All the horrors so graphically televised and reported,
A disgust of war by the world…subsequently did prevail.

So much so in fact…it eventually brought down a presidency,
Public outrage of the carnage became so strong.
The uncensored press had brought home to humanity,
The truth at last to the public…indeed did horrifically belong.

The first war in Iraq was a very different scenario,
The ‘authorities’ heavily limited access by the press.
Very little information and detail was allowed to flow,
To the real carnage…the world could only guess.

Monitored and carefully controlled…the media hamstrung,
Only ‘approved’ detail…the press were allowed to release.
The real face of war…was carefully screened and concealed,
Mass public outrage of war…thus did effectively cease.

This covert trend exists in the present war in Iraq,
Accurate reportage…the authorities still carefully control.
They fear the consequence of another Vietnam type backlash,
They try to conceal the horror and humanitarian toll.

A ‘clean’ war they espouse…with ‘humane’ bombing,
A ‘clinical decency’ is now claimed of modern war.
Yet the mutilated corpses still pile high in the mortuaries,
Nothing has changed…barbarity and death is as it was before.

The world is being duped…a sanitized view is all we see,
The truth and the awesome bloodshed by censorship conceals.
They have effectively minimized the outrage of the public,
Of the insane barbarity and truth…to the public they will not reveal.

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The Censored Press.

Contributed by pete on Thursday, 4th November 2004 @ 04:15:27 PM in AEST
Topic: InspirationalPoems

THE CENSORED PRESS…(©Peter Sprenkeler)

Vietnam…the first war into our lounge rooms beamed,
The press…unfettered…brought to us every grim detail.
All the horrors so graphically televised and reported,
A disgust of war by the world…subsequently did prevail.

So much so in fact…it eventually brought down a presidency,
Public outrage of the carnage became so strong.
The uncensored press had brought home to humanity,
The truth at last to the public…indeed did horrifically belong.

The first war in Iraq was a very different scenario,
The ‘authorities’ heavily limited access by the press.
Very little information and detail was allowed to flow,
To the real carnage…the world could only guess.

Monitored and carefully controlled…the media hamstrung,
Only ‘approved’ detail…the press were allowed to release.
The real face of war…was carefully screened and concealed,
Mass public outrage of war…thus did effectively cease.

This covert trend exists in the present war in Iraq,
Accurate reportage…the authorities still carefully control.
They fear the consequence of another Vietnam type backlash,
They try to conceal the horror and humanitarian toll.

A ‘clean’ war they espouse…with ‘humane’ bombing,
A ‘clinical decency’ is now claimed of modern war.
Yet the mutilated corpses still pile high in the mortuaries,
Nothing has changed…barbarity and death is as it was before.

The world is being duped…a sanitized view is all we see,
The truth and the awesome bloodshed by censorship conceals.
They have effectively minimized the outrage of the public,
Of the insane barbarity and truth…to the public they will not reveal.

Copyright Â© pete ... [ 2004-11-04 16:15:27]
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Re: The Censored Press. (User Rating: 1 )
by eatfresh22 on Thursday, 4th November 2004 @ 05:07:30 PM AEST
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True, true. I think you would really enjoy the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Such passion flowed out of the words of this poem. It must be a difficult task, though to leave reality in while so many perverted minds in this world would use the true freedom of press to show explicit things with no good meaning behind them. War, I think, is quite a different thing, to agree with you. If only men were decent....how much more informed we could be.
~Carrie~

Re: The Censored Press. (User Rating: 1 )
by alasdaircairns on Thursday, 4th November 2004 @ 06:20:16 PM AEST
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A kindred spirit in this site where people go on and on about love lost like they don't appreciate what we're doing to the poor world. Keep up the excellent, cutting, honest and truthful work.

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