i can still remember the old days
in london, back
when newspapers were not friendly
in terms of allowing a reading
while commuting -
the giants of the days of lore -
now only the daily telegraph stands
firmly conservative (never mind
the content) - back when the guardian
(left-wing stance of politics) and
the times (middle ground swaying
either way) and the above mentioned
right-wing newspaper measured
a grand 23" by 29" in length -
you ended up reading the first page
and maybe snippets of all the other pages,
on a crowded tube train with maximum
capacity being reached
you couldn't exactly spread your wings
like an albatross - god the hell of it -
now only on sunday will the times
print like the old-guard, and it's a quiet
reminiscence of sorts:
so typical of the solitude, the solo way
of observing - furious that i couldn't
find the news review section, to be later
informed that they put it together
with the main news -
and really, there's nothing intelligent about
televised news, there's no selection,
no secondary editing process where you
can pick out what you want to be
informed about -
on the television the news ends with a cute
baby monkey, or some other uplifting tale
from the animal kingdom,
the pandora's box lid or some **** -
probably influenced by darwinism -
the twist in the tale is that, at least,
newspapers allow you to edit and not be
spoon-fed, and they don't end the print
with some lovable tale to hide all the
grey horror prior -
i.e. 'and on a lighter note'... no, none of that,
they end with an opinions' section,
and if you're lucky to be reading
the sunday times you'll have the only
journalism that matters, well at least to me,
the review - interesting stuff in there -
a daily build-up of nearly unmissable
encyclopaedic series on entries of the odd
little curiosities.