I had previously done a lyric to It’s Good News Week on the theme of slow news. Now I was trying one on the theme of cheap news – i.e. a price war between the papers. I’m not sure if this version was used.
_ IT’S CHEAP NEWS WEEK _
(To the Tune of “It’s Good News Week”)
VERSE 1
It’s cheap news week,
Telegraph’s just 30p,
The price still seems too much for me,
It’s such an awful read;
It’s cheap news week,
Times is down to 20p,
I wouldn’t take it if it’s free,
They’ll cut price till they bleed.MIDDLE EIGHT
Have you read the news?
What has it told?
Media price wars,
Independent’s bound to fold,
(Guardian has caught a cold).VERSE 2
It’s slow news week,
Papers only talk about,
The price wars that they fought about,
On front page and on back;
It’s piss poor weak,
Customers will soon be thrashed,
When all they’ve got is Murdoch’s trash,
And crap from Conrad Black…
We want our papers back,
So give these shits the sack.