美国新冠疫情日记 07/17/2020

                                  We Are Still On The Front Line

Since the end of January, the coronavirus has been attacking the world now for almost six months. Our colleagues in different cities have stayed on the job. Our media service, Southern Daily, Southern TV and other media services have never been interrupted during this most challenging of times. I really want to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation to all of them.

Since Southern News was established in 1979, for the past several decades we have reported on so many political and economic stories as well as community news. We are rooted in the local immigrant society. We also grow together, but never before have we faced anything like this coronavirus pandemic. The disaster has changed our lives in many ways.

We saw a local medical doctor in McAllen, Texas, who told the story about how this border city has been fighting with the pandemic. He said he has lost so many dear friends and relatives and the death rate in his city was five times larger when compared with the state level. And now, because of the lack of space, they have ordered refrigerated trucks for storing the growing number of dead bodies. 

Today on the world stage there are many conflicts that have been created by different countries which have brought us to the real possibility of an all out war.

Dear brothers and sisters, this is a very critical time for all of us. We need to fully understand what is going on around the world and also right here in our own society.

Every day when I come back to my office I see all of my colleagues still working in our press room, TV studio and on the front line reporting the news. I tell them their hard work and sacrifice will be written in history.

                   我们仍然站在新闻最前缐

自从美国疫情发生以来巳将近半年时间，在我们全美各地同仁之努力下，我们所有媒体给社会大眾之服务从未间断 ，我在此要表达由衷之感谢。

美南新闻自创刊以来， 曾经遭遇过全世界在经济、政治上的许多变局 ，我们的前缐记者也曾亲临现场採访报导过诸多新闻事件，尤其是和移民社区有关的活动 ，我们永远和社区共同成长。

今天全球面对新冠病毒之肆虐，其所造成之社会、经济、政治之问题非常罕见， 也是我们在从事媒体工作的首次，难得可贵的是我们的工作伙伴不畏惧艰难之环境，大家仍然站在自己工作岗位上， 传递疫情讯息， 為社会提供最新最快的新闻。

我们看到德州南方小镇麦卡䒹有位当地医生在访问中泪流满面，因為他的亲朋好友在其手中不幸因冠状疫情而撒手人间， 当地之死亡率是大城市的五倍， 而且已经搬运来临时冷厙之停尸卡车，这些惨状难道当政者还在高唱政治骗局，视而不见？

各位弟兄姐妹们，这是我们大家值得深切反思的时刻了，我们眼看世界舞台上兴风作浪要掀起战火的政客，為了政治上之需要，可能会牺牲我们的生命為代价，我们要共同来拆穿他们的假面具。

每天我回到办公室，看见同仁们都在牢守岗位，从不退缩，尤其是在印刷厂每天工作到凌晨的同仁 ，在摄影棚控制室之主播及工程人员，在前缐採访之伙伴，你们都辛苦了，疫情总有一天会过去，你们的努力奋战 ，将在海外传媒史上留下精彩的一页。