The Media In The Time Of Coronavirus Poem by Alan Sandham

In the covid19 virus crisis
The Commentariat are locked at home,
TV, radio, ink on papyrus,
All conducted on the 'phone.

Interviews, once face to face,
One-on-one combat in one room,
Now conducted place-to-place,
Laptop-to-laptop, super-zoom.

Faces once a studio's distance
Now blown up, pixelated,
Words spun in effort to entrance
And keep an audience fixated
On the rhyming back-and-forths of doom.