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In Chapter 9 of Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut includes several comments of his own on "the real world." One example is found on page 200, when Vonnegut says, "The news of the day, meanwhile, was being written in a ribbon of lights on a building to billy's back. The window reflected the news. It was about power and sports and anger and death. So it goes."
See what I mean? Vonnegut is directly satirizing what has become of the daily news. From several TV anchors to a repetitive replication of the same news over and over across several stations, the news isn't exactly new anymore. It's become more of the same. In Vonnegut's eyes, it's the same daily across American news stations with focus on power, sports, anger, and death. In a nutshell, Vonnegut is right. This is essentially all that ever appears on the news, with all the topics falling into at least one of the categories, if not several. (Well, except for the weather, but what do the weathermen know anyways?) Vonnegut is directly criticizing the news, and he generalized what every local TV station has been reiterating for years now.
The local news have been critiqued across several spectrums, including the TV show "Whose Line Is It Anyways?" Vonnegut is simply jumping on board with his critique of the news by simply stating the only four categories that ever seem to occur on the news. Vonnegut satirizes the news accurately, and I'm sure no one can truly argue one way or the other against his point.
And to conclude, I'm going to leave it to the "Boom Goes the Dynamite" Guy. Enjoy: