Whispering Voices
Haiku Verse
Whispering voices
dark intent to silence truth,
what have we become?
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First Published: 12 January 2024, Jenise Cook’s Creative Journey on Substack.
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About this Haiku
My haiku doesn’t refer to any side of any news topic; it’s a general statement and a sad commentary on the state of news/journalism/information in our current age. This verse also reflects the comments I read on social media sites; it reflects what those people are thinking and then saying out loud. The commenters who express the same sentiment are often on opposite sides of an issue, so what’s going on?
I don’t know.
When I took a journalism class many light-years ago in the distant past and before the internet, our teacher hammered into our teenage brains: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? - the sacred mantra of journalists around the world. In every assignment he gave us, we had to answer each of these six questions.
He trained us to be objective and to focus on the facts as best as we could.
With the internet providing us with a “fire hose” of information, and with artificial inteligence bots now “writing” many articles, is it time for readers to pause, reflect, and do their own research based on journalism’s six questions, the reporter’s sacred mantra?
Your Turn
What do you think?
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Great poem. Smart advice, Jenise.
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