Mass culture or mass power?

For the portfolio task this week, I chose to adapt point two of the Adorno and Horkheimer extract, attempting to create a poem! It was difficult to rhyme it, but I got there in the end...even if the rhyme scheme is a bit sporadic.

The original text from Adorno,T. and M. Horkheimer (1994) "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" in The Dialectic of Enlightenment, New York: Seabury Press, is below for a reminder:

"Under monoploy all mass culture is identical, and the lines of its artificial framework begin to show through. The people at the top are no longer so interested in concealing monopoly: as its violence becomes more open, so its power grows. Movies and radio need no longer pretend to be art. The truth that they are just business is made into an ideology in order to justify the rubbish they deliberately produce. They call themselves industries; and when their directors' incomes are published, any doubt about the social utility of the finished products is removed."

I changed the above, into a more basic form, and after hours of tediously rhyming words and not getting anywhere, the outcome is this (below)...the point it makes is clear however:

"When a business controls the market, all the profit goes to one,
and all the public see is rubbish, for the "work" that had been done.
They don't care about hiding their power, and masking their money scheme,
their production is a masquerade and nothing is as it may seem. "

Well there you go...another portfolio task closer to Christmas....I enjoyed this one a lot!
Thanks cushioneers,

-Kendra