Evolving News

When I was a child 'the press'
meant 'the tabloids' and it was childish.
But it was the only written news allowed
in the house. The headlines consisted
of more stale puns and unfunny jokes
about the people in power than we dared
to make up about them for ourselves.

We neither knew nor cared who they were.

Today the press are the same as they ever were,
satires written to support the status quo,
which is why their jokes are so old and toothless.
If the tabloids had been sold as satires
on current events that might have been
more accurate, but would still be seen as tired.

Nowadays I have 'a newsfeed', a selection
of different audio visual media, journalism
and protests/petitions against how the world is run
that I have to process to evaluate the virtue of, 
as if something  can be done against the evil in the world.

When what I wish for is a satire
where what gives me laughter,
even if the laugher is rueful and bitter,
that is what shames the world of it's evil.