Elizabeth's Blog

For this week’s news comment I read “L.A. County will require proof of vaccination at drinking establishments” from The New York Times by Alyssa Lukpat. The article discussed that next month Los Angeles County will be requiring proof of vaccination for entry to places such as bars, nightclubs, and other drinking establishments. The requirement will also extend to “outdoor mega-events”. This is the next step in moving forward in hopes to put an end to the covid surges. The county already requires masks indoors regardless of vaccination status.

The article was actually pretty short and to the point. This didn’t leave much room for the writer to include any of their own opinions (which is a good thing). However, there wasn’t any of that included and it was seemingly objective to the reader. It also seemed to be written in an inverted pyramid format. The information that I would hope to find after reading the title/lead was then presented right at the beginning. The more I read from The New York Times the more “comical” it becomes to me that so many of them are written similarly. You get through the important information and then it goes into the background information or other context, then it brings the main story back in and ends the article. However, despite the articles being formatted alike the writer did a nice job giving the reader what they needed. And even parts where there was no information to give, it was addressed and explained why. For example, the article specifically addressed that the country officials did not specify how they would ask people to prove they were vaccinated.

I did find this to be relevant despite not living in this county. It’s always interesting to see what other parts of the country are doing to stop the spread/respread. It is also interesting to see considering the attempted recall of the California governor.