From the daily archives: Thursday, December 15, 2011

Local media watch: they’re your source, if you dig deep enough

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Just some of the stories today that impact your life:

The grand jury in Troy’s ballot fraud case is in its final stages. Applications for unemployment in the region have hit a three-year low. In light of controversies at Penn State and Syracuse, Governor Andrew Cuomo is set to introduce legislation [...]

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The Best 20 Albums of 2011 (that I heard, anyway)

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Here’s how we’re going to do this: I’m going to pick ONE to be album of the year, then the other 19 are going to be listed in no particular order.

The problem with lists is that art is not an empirical set of values. It can’t be quantified, unless you’re ranking by number of [...]

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