Power Outage

When the hot topic word is "transparency" in respect to how businesses operate in the local and greater community, it is odd when an organization manages to achieve local media silence.

When Ebola showed up

Man, we got in the news,

To prove to the world

We were the place, check the views,

How we offer the best 

That branding can buy,

With moon-suits and bleach

And some good looking guy.

when the power shut down

there was nary a peep,

like the public image guys

were in a deep sleep,

and the local news outlets

ho-hummed during brunch,

but if it happened at the Arena

Friend, I have a hunch.......

That 32 Journalists

From every news station,

Would be salivating

To perform an oration,

How they got the news first

Because that's how they brag,

If you are second or third, baby

You're in a wet paper bag,

Fighting it out

To get a pink-slip warning,

To be the best reporter

You start at four in the morning.

How does a business

Suppress news in a community,

As if writing their own rules

With benevolent impunity,

We're a non-profit they say

The good of humanity, is our cupcake,

But really, if the power goes out

Isn't there more at stake?

Pretend your Momma needs a surgery

And the doctors use power tools, right?

Did they tell anyone

Why the power went out that night?

Was it shared with the public

Like the "whale shark rescue"commercial?

Quite frankly, there was a blatant silence

I know that doesn't play as well as an infomercial.

If the public was aware

Regarding the little foibles 

Of operating an old hospital facility,

If they knew about all of the steps taken

How we repair, replace and engineer with agility,

Perhaps there would be a shared

Sense of ownership and pride,

How ye olde neighborhood hospital

Was in it, for the long community ride.

But, since Big Brother took over

Millions are spent on the brand,

It's about acquisitions 

And how they expand,

To co-partner, and outsource

And run a very tight and lean ship,

While big Captain Bobolink

Has a tight grip on his gold plated whip.

Media silence

In this environment of corporate transparency,

Is clearly an outright

Anachronistic aberrancy,

When you are advertising and branding

Regarding all those touchy feely good deeds,

You better tell the public all about

The power outage, leaky pipes, the blown boiler,

And the weeds.