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On Monday, December 14, Sandra Lindsay, a 52-year-old nurse from New York City, became the first American to receive the newly approved vaccine for the coronavirus. She was surrounded by camera crews and beaming colleagues when she got the shot in her left shoulder. Afterwards, she told the
New York Times that, as a Black woman, she hoped “to inspire people who look like me, who are skeptical in general about taking vaccines.”
Since then, numerous frontline workers as well as individuals at high risk for infection have posted photographs of themselves getting the vaccine. The 81-year-old actor Ian McKellen shared his jab on his Instagram feed. Vice President Mike Pence had his done on live television.
Column: In Vermont’s bubble, watching the whirlwind
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Many of us remember the Kingston Trio’s rendition, back in the late ’50s, of
Merry Minuet, whose lyrics began, “They’re rioting in Africa, they’re starving in Spain; there’s hurricanes in Florida, and Texas needs rain.” Who can read or hear those words today without a strong sense of
déja vu? The locations may have changed, but nothing else seems different.
My wife and I lived a whole cycle of life marriage, children, work, retirement, and death between the introduction of that song and now, and during that time, life for millions of people has grown only worse. We still exist with the threat of nuclear annihilation, but added to it is what appears to be a growing divide between the affluent and the poverty-stricken, as well as between the
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The Times-Reporter
I’m a news junkie. There’s no getting around it. The older I get, the more likely I will be found checking out the TV news channels and then watching the every five-minute repeats to see which spin each channel sends out.
My interest lies mainly in objectivity, something very few of the stations today practice. In my high school and college journalism classes, objectivity was unbreakable, unchangeable, unfailing law. If you wanted to pass the course, you never, I mean, NEVER, made anything up, expressed an opinion or reported something you couldn’t substantiate and attribute. Gone are the days. Most news channels today are more for entertainment than real news.