"News Goo" genre: Trip Hop
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	Song with rapper: GENRES: FAST TRIPHOP, TECHNO/RAP -- polarity/1's greatest hit to date. This too-fast-for-hipHop groove attacks the corporate dumbing-down of America's information media. After two years we're still getting regular email form people who hear it on the radio. It's featured in award-winning film-maker, Pedro Carvajal's documentary on culture-jamming, "Subvertising."
	CD: Yankin' The Food Chain   Label: SubTEKst Records Credits: D.A.V.-rap, bkg. vocals; Polar Levine-composer, producer, keyboards, synth bass, drum & perc. programming, sampling, bkg. vocals
	Story Behind the Song Journalist Danny Schechter asked Polar Levine to write a "soundtrack" for his book about to be published -- an exposé of the dumbing down of news during his years as a producer for CNN, 20/20, etc. Polar got right on it. Corporate profiteering by dumbing down news, information and culture is his major issue. Lyrics NEWS GOO (The More You Watch, The Less You Know) ©1999 Polar Levine -- Sine Language Music/BMI Communication Breakdown! Pause for this message. Wake up! Every station is identification Global syndication is shaping the nation. ABC-Disney, NBC-GE. Murdoch is Foxy and we're the hen, He owns the pen, the camera, the sword. Buy a Coke, buy a Ford. Getting broke? Getting bored? Selling attitude like food for the masses. Junk consumption. We're lumpen A bumpkin to the corporate state. You cannot satiate what you can't negotiate Your will's been snatched, The bill's attached Flim-flam diagram, data-jam, handi-cam Caught it, Yo, ya bought it A mind is a profitable thing to waste. Ya want another taste, baby? We got CHORUS: News Goo – What we need to know News Goo – What we want to know News Goo – What we think we know Got remote control to choose the show. But the more we watch, the less we know Ignorance grows on the spirit like a tumor. . . .till freedom is a rumor What we WANT What we NEED What we WANT What we NEED Do we even know who plants the seed? You think the media works for you But it’s a job for them, they're just selling brew. Who owns the media? Who does it speak for? Your butt on the sofa, leave your mind at the door And that's what entertainment is for. It's the drug of the century, the soul's penitentiary Sad what they call a news report. Who's fuckin’ who and OJ in court News is not supposed to entertain--to drug the soul to kill the pain But it all adds up to someone's capital gain. News goo--no explanation and we're lost in the fields of information plantation We'll be back after this station identification CHORUS: News Goo – What we need to know News Goo – What we want to know News Goo – What we think we know Got remote control to choose the show. But the more we watch, the less we know Ignorance grows on the spirit like a tumor. . . .till freedom is a rumor So where's the news of a people left out. Put a camera in my face just to hear me shout But they don’t wanna hear what I shout about Ya love it when we're cuffed. But not a people rebuffed We never play a lead in the sitcom you call the news unless we are accused. The positive refused It's the poor and unschooled that most need dope but it's the inside dope that holds the hope Can't cope with the selling of news like toothpaste. Spitting out headlines in mad haste We gotta stop the flow of news goo keeping us drunk on a sugary brew In the Information Age what we lack is information. Just a crew of haircuts and info-pretention With a pun and a smile to hold our attention. Like we're a nation of children Goo goo is the intention We are what we eat - we are what we know. But information is owned by those who own the show and control the flow. More when we return. Gotta go CHORUS: News Goo – What we need to know News Goo – What we want to know News Goo – What we think we know Got remote control to choose the show. But the more we watch, the less we know Ignorance grows on the spirit like a tumor. . . .till freedom is a rumor Westinghouse and Minnie Mouse in the house--making heat in the executive suite The future conceived on the bottom line and when the contracts are sorted truth is aborted I'm not a niche group or a fool or a poll. Their dumbing us down is gonna take it's toll There's money to be made for making me a pawn. The bill gets paid when democracy's gone With every corporate merge ya know there's a purge. They splurge on the debt and the news gets the net The public sector needs a news dissector to separate the hairspray from the Mayday The Press is supposed to educate, cast light on the snake - not force-feed the cake But the state of the Press is a crime, it's fake. 500 hundred channels no reason to rejoice. We have too much choice and not enough voice. We now resume our regular programming CHORUS: News Goo – What we need to know News Goo – What we want to know News Goo – What we think we know Got remote control to choose the show. But the more we watch, the less we know Ignorance grows on the spirit like a tumor. . . .till freedom is a rumor

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