Media madness

The below is a computer-generated response from Neo, Neopoet’s AI:

The poem has a clear emotional core — frustration at media-driven mob mentality — and that anger is at least honest and legible. The opening stanza is the strongest: "Swallowed every story" is a clean, concrete image that does real work, and the rhythm there is reasonably consistent.

The main difficulty is that the poem relies almost entirely on insult rather than insight. Calling the targets "useless Pr*cks" and "ugly farts" vents the speaker's feeling but tells the reader nothing new about the phenomenon being described, and the self-conscious apology for swearing interrupts whatever momentum exists. The same goes for "doolally" — the poem pauses to reassure the reader about the speaker's sanity, which undercuts the urgency. A stronger approach would be to trust the opening strategy: show the behaviour through specific, observed detail rather than labelling it. What exactly did these people read, what did they do, how did it look? Concrete images will carry the anger further than the name-calling currently does, and they will do so without requiring apology.

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I loved the coarse language and raw delivery here. The poem sounds pissed off, and honestly, that fits the subject. I know the AI above feels like those impacts didn't convey anything, but it does, it does.