Victims of TISM Support Group

Lose Your Delusion II (1)

Turn on Mike Moore (2),
Neglect Mary Kostakidis (3)
Time has come for us to choose
Infotainment over news

Turn off SBS (4),
Forget Mary Kostakidis
Like the rest of us I guess
She can no longer so impress

Why continue to keep trying
To separate the real news from the lying
In the end it all comes down to this

Turn off SBS

We all eventually switch
To lying and deception
We choose the tabloid pitch
Like some inner technical hitch

The high ideals that you once had
End up in your colostomy bag
Pick Paradise Beach (5) over John Keats (6)
Choose beauty over truth
SBS becomes RS (7) like Mary after youth
Dead air, loss of all reception

All of us must face the day
When our ideals have flown away
Just give in to our dismay
Watch Ray Martin (8) not Mary K.
Time has been in our youth
We sought accuracy and truth
Scoffed the commercial news
Satirised Hinch (9) and all his views
But oh how does time unnerve us
The Special Broacasting Service
Doesn't seem worth the hassle
Don't change your life, change your channel

Annotations

1. A reference to Guns 'N' Roses album Use Your Illusion II
2. Mike Moore is the TV journalist in Frontline, a comedy show which parodies current affairs shows, notably 'A Current Affair', which is hosted by Ray Martin (see note 7)
3. Mary Kostakidis is a newsreader for SBS.
4. SBS: the Special Broadcasting Service is a multicultural broadcaster in Australia.
5. Paradise Beach is an Australian soap opera.
6. John Keats is a 19th century English poet and key figure in the Romantic movement.
7. RS = rat shit, meaning awful.
8. Ray Martin, Australian TV personality, 3-time Gold Logie winner, and host of A Current Affair (ex host of The Midday Show and presenter for Australia's 60 Minutes)
9. Derryn Hinch is an outspoken and controversial right-wing Australian journalist. He is also referred to in The Penis Mightier Than The Sword, from Great Truckin' Songs.