The Sounds of Media Silence----With Apologies to Simon and Garfunkel

CBC, ABC, BBC: same difference. Commercial media ditto. Sing along. ________________________________________ Hello ignorant greed my old friend I’ve come to talk to you again Because a Malthusian vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And an apocalyptic vision was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of CBC silence In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone ‘Neath the halo of Ehrlich’s lamp I turned my attention from the cold and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of steady (state) light That split the night And broke the sound---of CBC silence And in that naked light I saw Canada’s population growth rate highest in the G8 Captive of a catastrophic fate Yet I heard---the deafening Sound--- of Silence Environmentalists talking without speaking Hearing without listening People writing articles that editors never share Because no one dare Disturb the Sound of Media Silence Jack Parsons was right on The population taboo has not gone Journalists give the damn of tinkers And the CBC is a herd of independent thinkers “Fools”, said I, “You do not know Silence like the cancer of growth grows Hear my words that I might teach you Give me air time that I might reach you But my words, like silent raindrops fell And echoed in the well Of media shunning So the Canadian people bowed and prayed To the Consumer God the Growth Lobby made And the sign flashed out its warning In the words that it was forming And the sign said, “The words of Hardin and Kunstler are written on the subway walls and tenement halls” And whispered in the sounds of Media Silence Tim Murray June11/09 ©