Clean News?

I was not 'born political', like some are. 
The house I was born into avoided politics.
The adult take on politics was expressed as a code,
where all cynicism was hidden from the children,
lest the child openly by cynical toward their parents.

I was one such child. What Politics meant
was also obscured by the tabloid press
that my parents subscribed to, there
any political narrative in the news
had to be rewritten as an illiterate joke
with a banal punchline, for the adverts
that made the paper's profits to seem half truthful.

Nowadays YouTube brings me my world news,
which is to say I watch how America's sees itself,
and I know that it takes a lot of money to make the events
it portrays seem like a soap opera set mostly in a casino,
whilst presenting what appears to be a truthy explanation.

My mother might have been less cynical,
and more engaged with the television news,
had she seen how reports and Party Politics
could be remade as a kind of soap opera for export.