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  In The U.S.A...

We Have This Concept of:

'The 4th Estate'

  Which Is Considered...

[ 'Many' People Are Saying ]

A 4TH

BRANCH

Of GOVERNMENT


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¡ WARNING !

U.S.A. CIVICS LESSON JUST AHEAD!


  In The U.S.A...
There are 3 Branches of Government:

The Executive Branch:
( The President,
His Cabinet,
The Dept. of State,
& The 'Justice' Department )

The Congress:
( The House of 'Representatives',
& The UN-Representative Senate )

And The Judiciary:
 ( The 'Politicized'...
'Supreme' Court,
& All, 'Politicized', Federal Courts )


--- BUT --- 


  IF You Ask Me...

[ And NOBODY ... IS ]


  The 'Justice' Department...
'Probably' 'Should'
Be Made Into
Its OWN Branch
SEPARATE ... FROM
'The Executive'

  So That It CAN...
Maintain
EVEN The Appearance OF
'INDEPENDENCE'
... FROM ...
The Executive Branch

  Just In The 'Unlikely' 'Event'...
That It 'MIGHT'
NEED TO
PROSECUTE
'Someone'
--- IN ---
The Executive Branch

 (: I'm NOT ... Naming Any Names...
Quite YET

  But We ALL KNOW...
  WHO YOU ARE :)



  But Anyways...

  SINCE We Already Have 3 Branches...

  IF We Added Another...

  Then It Would Be The 4th

  And So That's How We Came Up With...

The Whole '4' Thing


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  Now That We Got All The Math Out of The Way...

  I Can Go Ahead And Tell You THAT ...

[ Unofficially ]

---  THE  ---

'4th'

Branch

Of The U.S. Government

Is Commonly Known AS:

  [ Drum-roll, Please ... ]


¡ The 'FREE' Press !


( a.k.a. 'Journalism' )


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  Since ... WE...

( Here In The U.S.A. )

  Consider...

A FREE PRESS
As An INTEGRAL
And CRUCIAL
'BRANCH'
OF OUR OWN GOVERNMENT

  Then 'ANYONE'...
CAN 'PLAINLY' SEE
Just HOW
'SERIOUSLY'
WE 'MUST' TAKE
'JOURNALISM'

  In The 'Good'...

  Ol'...

  U...

  S...

  of...

A.



. . .




(: ¡ JUST KIDDING ! :)



  Unfortunately...
  Only 'SOME'...
'News' 'Organizations'
Take Their ... 'Calling'
--- Seriously ---
And Realize
The Importance
  Of TELLing...

ONLY

¡ THE TRUTH !


  We DO HAVE...
  More Than Our Fair Share...
Of UN-Fair
BIASED
Free-for-All
'Anything Goes'
'Journalistic-Like'
'Tabloids'
  And 'FAUX-News'...
  Outlets...

  All MORE...
  Than 'Merely'...
WILLING
  To Dish Out...
All KINDS of Rumour
Innuendo
And
Just
  Plain...

¡ LIES !



¡ Sad !


¡ SO ... SAD !


:(


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In . My . 'Humble' . Opinion

  [ Which ... AGAIN ...
NO ONE ... Is Asking For ]


  IF A...
'News' Paper

  Or A...
'News' Channel

  Or A...
'News' Website

  Or A...
'News' Organization


  IS NOT DEDICATED...

TO ... The TRUE NEWS

TO ... The TRUE FACTS

TO ... The TRUE TRUTH


--- THEN ---


IT HAS NO BUSINESS
ADVERTISING ITSELF

AS

'NEWS'


  And IF...
It Is NOT TRULY DEDICATED
TO:
'FAIR & BALANCED'
'COVERAGE'
... OF ...
The News


--- THEN ---


  It Should BE HONEST...
And STATE:

  Just WHO...
It Is BIASED FOR

  And WHO...
It Is BIASED AGAINST



  For Instance...

  One 'American'...

'News'

'Outlet'

--- KNOWN ---

[ Far & Wide ]

AS:

'Fox News'

 [ Or Is It: ... 'FAUX News'...
I'm Never ... 'Quite' ... SURE ! ]

'SHOULD' State:

That They Are BIASED AGAINST:

--- ANYTHING ---

'Democratic'


And BIASED FOR:

--- ANYTHING ---

'Republican'


[ Or IS IT: 
( Instead of 'Republican' )
Far ... FAR ... 'RIGHT'
--- And/Or ---
'Autocratic'
--- And/Or ---
  'White Supremecist'...
--- And/Or ---
  'Something Equally Unsavory'...


  I'm Never 'Quite' SURE ! ]



 [ And BTW:...
  Isn't a 'FOX' ... KNOWN...
--- Far & Wide ---
  As A 'Sneaky'...
  'Trickster'...
 Kind-of ... 'Animal' ?

  And So...
  Does That Then MAKE...
  The Rest of The World...
--- IT'S ---
  'Hen House' ? ]


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  And All of THIS...

  [ By a Long and Circuitous Route ... ]

  Leads Me Into...

  The Nether Regions...

  And The Naughty Bits...

    OF ...




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'Tabloid' 'Journalism'

  In Many Nations...
  We See This 'Species'...
Of 'Feces'
Labeled AS:
'Journalism'


  And While Their...
Speech
IS:
--- Nominally ---
  'FREE'...

  These 'News' 'Outlets'...
  Have Taken...
'Freedom of Speech'
  To A WHOLE...
'Nother
¡ Level !



  But ONE Nation...
  Above ALL Others...
  Is KNOWN...

--- FAR & WIDE ---

  For Their 'Tabloid'...
'Journalism'


  They Are ...
Infamously
Famous

--- WORLD-WIDE ---

  As The TOP...

¡ Of The HEAP !

 (: And As The TOP ...
 of The Heaping Pile :)



  These 'Brave'...

  'Journalists'...


  'Scour' The World...

  To 'Uncover'...

It's Most Unsavory Aspects


  The Sun Never Sets...

[ Nor ... Shines ]

On This Tabloid 'Empire':

  The British...

'Press'


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  Now...

--- AGAIN ---

  I DO 'HAVE' To Admit...

  That The U.S.A. ALSO...
  Has MANY of These 'Brave' Rags...

  Inquiring...
NATIONALLY
--- And All Across The Globe ---
  For Any Spec of Dirt...
Real
Or Imagined

And Passing All of It Off AS:

  'Newsworthy'...

 [ Or Else ... 'Maybe'...
  Just Taking Money...
  To NOT Publish...
  The 'Kills'...
 That They've 'Caught' ]

  Just Because...

  [ As 'They' Say ... ]

 " Perspiring Minds...
 Want To Know! "

 [ I 'DO' 'Hope'...
  That I Got That...
""" Quote """
'Right'

( But I'm 'Not' 'Really' 'Sure' )


Maybe It Was:

" All The 'News' ... That 'FITS' ... In Print "


Or Maybe:

" We Just Give The People ... What WE DECIDE ... They Want "


Or Perhaps:

 " I Was Just Following Orders...

 [ And Paychecks ] "


Or No ... Maybe It Was:

" All's 'Fair' ... In Love and 'News' "


  Or Something Like That ... ]


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'Dear' British 'PRESS'

  Didn't You Once...
'PRESS'
  One of Your Own Princesses...
To Her Premature
And Tragic
Death?


  And Didn't You...
( More Recently )
'PRESS'
--- AWAY ---
  One of Your Own Princes...
And His New Wife?


  And Didn't You Also...
'PRESS'
  Your OWN People...
And Your OWN Government
  Into 'Brexiting'...
A UNION
Of European Nations?

  Which UNION...
  Was Formed...
To Irradicate
The Senseless Wars
That Perennially Ravaged
Your Continent?

  And Which Was Formed...
  To Put An End To...
The Senseless
Unproductive
And Inefficient
Economic
'In-Fighting'
Between Its Nations
Since The 'Last' ... WAR?


  WASN'T THAT UNION...

¿ A NOBLE IDEAL ?


  WASN'T THAT UNION...

¿ A CAUSE CÉLÈBRE ?


  WASN'T THAT UNION...

A CAUSE

WORTH

JOINING

¿ FOR ?


  WASN'T THAT UNION...

A Pretty
Darned
Good

¿ IDEA ?



  But Small-Minded 'Nationalists'...

--- With The Help of The 'Tabloids' ---

  Using False 'PRESS'...
Fear-Mongering
And Half-Truths

  Tossed It ALL...

¡ In The Bin !


¡ Bravo !

¡ Well Done !

  Hat's Off...

¡¿¡¿ 'Gentlemen' ?!?!


  One CERTAINLY...
CAN'T SAY
  That The 'Fruits'...
  Of Your 'Labours'
  Do NOT Have...
¡ Consequences !


  But It's Not Like...
  You Would Ever Claim...
  Any Sort of Responsibility...

¿ Right ?

  Because...
  You Were Probably 'Just'...

  " Giving The People...
  What They...
¿¿¿ 'WANT' ??? "


  Or Maybe...

  You Were 'Just'...

  'Following'...

  'Orders'...


[ Or Paychecks ]

(: That One Never Gets Old! :)


  And So...
  I Am FORCED...
To Wonder:


" Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir?

  At Long Last...

  Have You Left...

 No Sense of Decency? "


--- Joseph N. Welch


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  I Am Just Writing All of This...

  As A 'Concerned' ...

Global

  Citizen...


  From Some 'Neighbouring' Nation...

  Which Either Never HAD...

The 'Privilege'

  Of Being A Part of...

The British 'Empire'

  Or Which...

  Managed To Somehow 'Lose'...

That 'Honour'


  And Therefore...

I May Not Have

A Full & Complete

  Understanding of...

'British'

--- er ----

'Britishness'


  So PLEASE ...

  DO Pardon Me...

  If I Don't See Things...

Quite

'Britishey'

Enough


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¡ Oh !

¡ I Almost Forgot !


  Just One More...

'Personal'

Question:

[ And This Is Admittedly ... a 'Little Bit' ... 'Off Topic' ]


  What IS It...

  With ALL of The ....

'Bikini-Pics'

  On British...

[ AND American! ]

  'So-Called'...

'News'

¿ Sites ?


  I Keep Visiting Those Links...

[ Almost 'Religiously' ]

  And I Have Yet To Find...

Even a 'Spec' of 'News'

 [ And Barely a 'Spec'...
Of Clothing ]



  But The 'WORST' Part IS...

  Since I ... 'May' ... Have...

'Inadvertently'

'Clicked'

  On ... 'A Few'...

'Bikini'
'News'
'Items'


 [ JUST...
'INNOCENTLY'
'SEARCHING'
FOR 'NEWS'
 Mind You! ]


  I AM NOW 'INUNDATED'...

 [ Thanks To...
'Internet-Tracking Software'
 Which Has 'Identified' ME...
  As Someone Who Is 'Interested'...
--- IN ---
'Bikini-'
 'News' ]


  AND AM...

'CONSTANTLY'

  Being 'SERVED UP' With...

EVEN  MORE

'Bikini'

'News'

  'Selections'...


  Than I Could Have EVEN IMAGINED...

  In My 'Wildest'...

Dreams


  And It Has Gotten To The Point...

  That I AM NOW 'Seriously'...

'Considering'

DELETING

ALL 'COOKIES'

  And Using My Browser's...

  'Incognito' Mode...

  Just So That I Can Return...

  To A More...

  'Innocent'...

  And 'Informative'...

  'Browsing'...

'Experience'


 [ But It's Too Hard to Do All That...

  So mostly ...
--- For Now ---
  I'm just trying ...
--- VERY HARD ---
  To Ignore All The Bikini-News ...
That I'm Being
--- CONSTANTLY ---
'Tempted' With

And Just Scroll Right on Past
  To The ...
--- 'REAL' ----
 'News' ]



  And SO...

 ( Long story, short... )

I Was Just Wondering:


WHAT ... KIND

OF  'NEWS'

--- IS/ARE ---

'BIKINI-PICS'


¿ ANYWAYS ?


-- signed: 'A Perspiring Mind'


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The Tabloid 'Bloodline'

[ Almost Totally Off-Topic ... ( But Not 'Totally' ) ]


  Even Though...

  Kings & Queens...

  And Princes & Princesses...

  Are Not ... 'Really' ... 'Needed'...

--- In The 21st Century ---

  Still...

  It IS ... 'Kinda' ... 'Fun'...

  To Have ... 'Royalty'...

  Ever So Much...

--- On Our Minds ---

  And Ever-Present...

  Within The Tabloids...

  In All of Their 'Pomp'...

And Their 'Glory'


¿ 'TIZN'T IT ?



  And, BTW...

[ Just ... Curious ]

  Does Anyone Happen To KNOW...

  Just HOW MANY...

(£) POUNDS (£)

DOES

  The British Electorate...

Spend

  In Order To Have...

  Such 'Bespoke'...

  'Tabloid-Fodder'...

  Ever...

¿ Near At Hand ?



  I Can't Help But Imagine...

  That In Times Like 'THESE'...

( With All The Brexit Chaos & Plagues ... & War In Europe ... et. al. )

  That It Might Be 'Somewhat' Beneficial...

( For The British PEOPLE )

  To Be Able To Retain...

  At Least 'SOME'...

  Of All Those Precious, English POUNDS (£)...

  In Order To...

  Oh, I Don't Know...

  Maybe...

Hire Lorry-Drivers?


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¡ Oh !

1 More Thing:

  I Would 'Probably' Be 'Remiss'...

[ Although My Remarks Would Probably NOT Be Missed ]

  If I Didn't 'Congratulate' You...

  On 'Successfully' 'Navigating'...

'Andrew-Gate'

  By...

( While Not Admitting 'Guilt' )

  'Paying Off'...

His Accuser

  Who 'Obviously' WAS...

" 'Round The Bend "



God Save

The Queen's

¡ Son !


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¡ Oh !

1 More, More Thing:

  Just WHAT...

IS 'Great' Britain

--- EVEN DOING ---

  In 'The Falklands'...

¿ ANYWAYS ?


  I 'Think'...

'Maybe'

  That They Should Probly Be Returned...

  To Argentina ...

'Maybe'?

Huh?


  I Mean...

  It's Not Like...

  They're Off The Coast...

Of Cornwall

Or Anything

Right?


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