Monday, June 8, 2020

Timericks from stories by Terrence McCoy, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Jesse Drucker, and Ben Smith.






As coronavirus deaths in Brazil surge, Bolsonaro limits the release of data
@terrence_mccoy


When you live in old Brazil/you'd better not get very ill/The hospitals won't count you sick/To them it is impolitic/to tally up the daily score/It make their President quite sore/So if you cough up semolina/you'd better move to Argentina.


Hospitals Got Bailouts and Furloughed Thousands While Paying C.E.O.s Millions.
@jbsgreenberg  

Big hospitals are getting theirs/from Uncle Sam for their affairs/Execs get bonuses up front/but ev'ry bedpan cleaning grunt/suffers wages cut in half/or is laid off as excess staff/Pandemics come and go, I guess/but only fat cats get largesse.


Inside the Revolts Erupting in America’s Big Newsrooms
@benyt

To write the truth and be objective/makes reporters ineffective/if the truth is nauseating/and deserves a firm berating/When did conscience turn old-fashioned/with decency so baldly rationed?

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