MIGHTY MEN OF NEWS

Gone are the Murrows

The Cronkites and the Hollenbecks.

Absent are the Garroways,

Huntleys, Brinkleys.

Ditto the Chancellors and Brokaws.

Never to return are the

Reasoners, Jenningses and Downses.

These Mighty Men of News,

Who disturbed the air and

Chiseled stone

In the Discharge of

Their sacred and Holy Duty.

In their place

Are skywriters.

The void of Information

Is filled by Complaint,

Debate and Spite.

Men who used to speak

Are replaced by men

Who scream and shout.

Our televisions are now

But wires and lights

In a box

Failing to maintain a spark.

And I weep

For what we

Have become.