The song is about a journalist at a freak show, and the freak show is a metaphor for the alternative culture that mainstream news media don't cover. No matter how erudite and no matter how many working-class contacts Mr. Jones has to get facts for his stories, he's never going to get what's going on in front of him.
The song is about a journalist at a freak show, and the freak show is a metaphor for the alternative culture that mainstream news media don't cover. No matter how erudite and no matter how many working-class contacts Mr. Jones has to get facts for his stories, he's never going to get what's going on in front of him.