A Canned Promise!
Cleaning up San Francisco
Arriving at Fox News earlier, it had aroused slight suspicion. A sealed case containing a DVD with a pleasant flower logo addressed to the Head of Fox News Network.
En route, it passed through the token security devices before landing in its intended recipient’s inbox.
Mildly intrigued by its anonymity and the archaic format in which it was presented, the head of Fox spent only a moderate amount of time before viewing it.
His gaping jaw was joined in the office four minutes later by his compadres’ sealed and supercilious smiles. They sat, cursive glances watchward briefly in check, as the CEO replayed the video.
Neon, sweat, and hamburgers as homeless addicts, and an overweight man, picking his nose, sat on a bench watching children in the playground. Other children accompanied their parents, crying and asking for things they’d been taught to want. Parents who were merely older credit-card-carrying caricatures. A chorus of canned laughter punctuated each scene in the video.
San Francisco was portrayed as faceless as any other city on the West Coast of California, with the same global franchises and contemporary office blocks dancing efficiently upon the resident architecture's sepulchres.
