As sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, news outlets are providing media coverage, and the way the eclipse is being covered, well, this is just about tantamount to the moon covering the sun – not a beat missed. It seems as if there isn’t a person on this entire earth who is willing to just let this rare occasion slip past without their noticing, that is, the way the media is portraying related activities.
For instance, just yesterday I saw on the broadcast T.V. news where, what, 100,000 eclipse “fanciers” (pronounced: “fan seers”) have
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