For The Journalist, On Yom Kippur

For the truth we have warped before thee Hyped before thee, tailored before thee Pimped before thee Doctored before thee For the sake of nothing more than a deadline or a headline Or simply for our name's sake For all these Forgive us, pardon us, atone for us For the sin we have sinned before thee In throwing off the yoke of ethics For the sin we have sinned before thee Knowingly and through carelessness For the sin we have sinned before thee through cunning speech through scorning with cleverness through the bias of the narrowed eye, the haughty eye, through entrapment, through gossip mongering For the sin of currying favor, by keeping secrets that protect the powerful, And for the sin of causing death, by revealing secrets that can identify targets For the sin we have sinned before thee In choosing the single picture over the 1,000 words And for the sin we have sinned before thee In feasting on the failings of those we choose to vilify And in denial of the evils of those with whom we identify For the sin we have sinned before thee In the mining and selling of grief For the privacy we trample For the mourners we exploit For the good names we ruin And the good works we ignore For all these, Forgive us, pardon us, atone for us www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/767447.html

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