Ok, alright...before y'all get on my case, BambaLaye never referred to our simpleton cum leading Gambian online newspaper proprietor by name. That was my mind playing games with me. But on a second thought here is the poem in it's entirety... read it and assign your own motives: isn't that what the art of poetry is all about...I digress:
Breaking News: I have a poem
Breaking News: Breaking news is all over the place
Breaking News: All news is broken or dead
Breaking News: I am sick and tired of the breaking
Breaking News: I'd rater have the news fixed, not broken
Breaking News: I saw Yaya stick his finger in his nose
Breaking News: I have an interview with a derelict
Breaking News: My interview is coming soon. Stay tuned
Breaking News: No news is good news
Breaking News: My Interview Part I
Breaking News: Who is trying to hack me?
Breaking News: Oh no not again!
Breaking News: My Interview Part II
Breaking News: I can interview myself
Breaking News: The editor laughed…ha..ha..ha
Breaking News: Boromsi was there; I swear
Breaking News: Who let the cat out?
Breaking News: One of Jammehs beeds on his "kurus" is lost
Breaking News: Wow you can break the news! You bet!
Breaking News: I'm tired of this shit!
Breaking News: Are you not tired of the crap?
Breaking News: I break it so you don't have to do a darn thing
Breaking News: Where not even Jammeh will give fling
Breaking News: The most authoritative source of news is here to stay
Breaking News: Not even a fly can sway
Breaking News: Our interviews will never fail to betray
Breaking News: We cling on to the last straw to keep you over-informed
Breaking News: No journalistic ethics can keep us straight
Breaking News: We are better than all of you
Breaking News: Our associated editors do not edit a darn line
Breaking News: We only have honorary editors – whatever that means
Breaking News: We are jourtalists, not your friend!
Breaking News: We care less about family – yes ma kowoh!
Breaking News: When it says sssh! We break it
Breaking News: No cheese for the be jesses'
Breaking News: We care more to talk about your messes
Breaking News: Freedom we believe in but can take it with a lie
Breaking News: Ndoutee ndoutee, you do it we tell
Breaking News: We tip the scales when it comes to tales
Breaking News: And so in twenties we go on…
I didn't seek permission from BambaLaye to publish his intellectual property here.
However I will gladly oblige if he ask me to take it down.
Having said that, I still believe this poem catches in a few sentences
what critics like me have been decrying about the lack of ethics that constitutes nderry's
journalism.
4 comments:
Oh I love this poem so much. What a funny poem it is?
Well, the good thing is that, it has reduced the 'Breaking News' on freedom today. I'm not saying the poem is for them, but its result is just fine.
BREAKING NEWS - this is really BREAKING.
Almost all the NEWS on almost all the so-called Gambian online newspapers are BREAKING. All these news tempt to BREAK is JAMMEH and his administration. Ironically, they do break it because here and there, so often we here our Gambian folks: daeganaa...! daega-nga li hew...? and so forth. Well, did I BREAK anything here????
Breaking the Breaking News. Wondering who is leading at the Moment. Freedom or Confidential. Cast your votes.
Hey anonymous,
Stop initiating polls on my blog...just kidding. By the way there is no competition between this minuscule corner and the mighty freedom. They are the leading online Gambian newspaper. That is what Nderry say...and it must be true if nderry put his reputation on the line.
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