To the tune of Barry Manilow’s “I Write the Songs”
You see me on the boob tube
Sponsored by drugs for the old.
I’ve made my faustian bargain.
I am well paid,
And I read the news.
I read the news that tells you how you should think.
I read the news and then I take a strong drink.
I read the news that they permit you to know.
I read the news, I read the news.
My job is very simple.
That is to be blindly believed,
So when you hear my smooth recitation,
You won’t know that you’ve been deceived.
I read the news that tells you how you should think.
I read the news and then I take a strong drink.
I read the news that they permit you to know.
I read the news, I read the news.
Oh, my reading is very soothing; they don’t pay me big money for nothing.
I can make you think I really mean what I say.
My news fills your mind, so nothing else you can find.
It’s for you, it’s from me.
Here is what you can’t see:
It’s for wholesale trickery.
I read the news that tells you how you should think.
I read the news and then I take a strong drink.
I read the news that they permit you to know.
I read the news, I read the news.
I read the news that tells you how you should think.
I read the news and then I take a strong drink.
I read the news that they permit you to know.
I read the news, I read the news.
I am well paid, and I read the news.
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