It doesn't seem much to ask that other journalists -- and why not also political leaders and willing members of the public -- should stop for a minute's silence on one day each year, May the third, to pay tribute and reflect on the courage of those who have died for our right to know.
The sound of jazz from Shanghai's ubiquitous dancing halls, which had once permeated the city until the then new Communist government put a stop to it, has returned after decades of silence.
But church leaders said they had to silence it completely because the bell's computer software could not be programmed locally to stop it chiming at night.
Another quick question: Now that you have dropped the hammer of silence on Dr. Bob, and Dr. Jay Gordon and I can stop listening to them now, when do I ignore the hundreds (heck, it may be thousands) of peer-reviewed studies published in mainstream medical journals that draw a link between vaccines and harm and lack of efficacy?
Thousands of protesters marched in silence through Manhattan on Sunday in an effort to end the New York Police Department's "stop-and-frisk" policy, which they claim disproportionately affects young black and Latino men.