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This poem is about a sleazy tabloid newspaper.

The writer is trying to get his point across about how ruthless the

news editor

Is, he does this by adding humour, some slight exaggeration and also

with another character

The cameraman, he has a totally different personality and also work

ethic,

In this essay I will use Dehns humour to demonstrate the scandal and

sensationalism of the

Editor.

Almost all of the editors words are headlines:" Nun drinks

whiskey...Mayor binds wife

With chain...Baby found burnt in cot", these are all short snappy

lines, which speed up

The poem and are like real headlines, they're very quick and last very

short,

Soon to be replaced by other, more scandalous stories, the rapid pace

is very important

Adding a strong rhyme, Dehn includes alliteration:" Girl Guide

Throttled...Baronet Bottled".

The two different news people have totally different characters, one

the editor,

he is a ruthless man and his attitude towards other people is shown:"

never mind who got hurt,

no use grieving, lets get weaving, what's the latest dirt?"

He doesn't care about the subjects of his work, just the Sex, Drugs

and scandal of it all,

the camera man adds a sharp contrast to his colleague, he uses

elevated language and is a

naturalist:" Shall I get a picture of the lovebird singing?", he

speaks slower and

more descriptive, this contrast is a clever addition to the poem by

Dehn,

It shows the sleazy editor in a worse light.

"Shall i get a picture of her pretty little eggs?"

"No, go and get a picture of her legs" This is bathos, an anti-climax,

the cameraman is building

the verse up with his inquisitiveness and slow speech, when the

domineering editor blurts out what he

Wants, and brings the tempo back down again, the editor is certain in

what he says, and is not to be

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