Rags To Riches

In the news today

on screens
and in print domain

Pages ablaze
with scandalous tales
of sexual infidelities

All our naughty celebrities

with their feet of clay
and libidos
of generosity

High profile sinners
prominently stoned
on the village home page

To sleazy
gossip merchants

the color of rumors
has always been green

The so called
legitimate media
looks down
on their fluffy product

even though
all the while

the line
between hard news
and gossip blurs

That age old quandary

Do you give
the people
what they want

or what 
they need?