“Seeking to cheer up the population,” observes “Candid Camera” host Peter Funt in The Wall Street Journal, music- and video-service firms are “betting” Christmas-themed …
“Seeking to cheer up the population,” observes “Candid Camera” host Peter Funt in The Wall Street Journal, music- and video-service firms are “betting” Christmas-themed entertainment is what’s needed right now. In September, one Ohio radio station branded itself “The Valley’s Christmas Station.” That felt like “a stretch ahead of the first frost.” Larger stations across the country reportedly went to “all-holiday offerings soon after Halloween.” In his youth, recalls Funt, “no outlet dared cue” Christmas fare until after Thanksgiving. “Like many people, I’m seduced by songs of the season.” Yet when they blared “from my car radio on Election Day, it was unsettling and out of place.” And while he’s “looking forward to a ‘Holly, Jolly Christmas,’ ” for the next few weeks at least, “I’d prefer a silent night.” Gov. Cuomo says “he has been ‘talking to other governors across the nation’ to stop vaccine distribution by the Trump administration until the Biden administration comes in,” fumes Joel Zinberg at City Journal. The governor claims Trump “would rely on private-market mechanisms like hospitals and pharmacies to distribute the vaccine,… [leaving out] ‘all sorts of communities that were left out the first time when COVID ravaged them,’ ” because their neighborhoods have “no Rite-Aid or CVS.
