I have tried with modern Politics/media
And I will not give up trying to understand it.
But I am struggling to get a firm grip on it.
When a story moves like a whirlwind
over the vast plane of fast modern media
I have to wait to decide what to think,
because politics is about much more
than 'what is the first item in the news bulletin?'
Or a leader getting their name into the big type
of tomorrows news before the headlines are written.
I am thankful that I can see before the leaders
that populate the news headlines seem to,
that those who hear them will decide
well before the speakers do 'Nothing new here'.
By the time it is clear that there is nothing left
to switch off I have left the news long behind.
Older stories with more immediate cogence
and depth of thought take their place. They have to.
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