News Or Views Poem by L MILTON HANKINS

Once was a time when you could believe
Things happened like you heard on the news
Now, you cannot be too sure about that
For you are hearing a commentator's views.

Reporting events has become so politicized
Everything is slanted to the left or the right
What comes across with sarcasm or a frown
Is calculated to instigate an on-going fight.

One network is still promoting Trump's lies
While another spends all its time refuting
What listeners are already aware is untrue
Hearing rubbish, what's the point of disputing.

Switching off the network news, I return to print
Where I can check sources and writers up front
I can read an article from several different angles
And make up my own mind, to be perfectly blunt!