And it just isn't 'like a newspper report', rather like a comment, for it isn't balanced and unpartial and just-the-facts like old broadsheets sometimes tried. It is a song that takes a position, that only tells a selected part of the story, one of many possible ways to tell it.

That too, is not a criticism, for songs have to take sides and to make a point and to be unbalanced. If they weren't they couldn't be good. Imagine the "Manchester rambler" with a verse from the POV of the land owner in between, or "Pound-a-week rise" with a verse about the hardship of the international competition, just for the balance.

For the reporting we now have better media than songs. What we look at is a form a art. Very subjective, as it has to be.

Wolfgang