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The Best CDs of 2009, pt. 2: the Platinum LPs

Posted on 2009.12.27 by winterSmith 6 comments

In Part 1 we had a look at some very good 2009 releases, and in other years some of those CDs might have made a run at a Platinum LP. As I said, though, this was maybe the best year for new music since Jimmy Carter was president. So please, give these recipients of the S&R/Lullaby Pit Platinum LP a

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Why American media has such a signal-to-noise problem, part 1

Posted on 2009.08.03 by winterSmith 19 comments

Part one of a two-part series. From Cronkite to Couric: the Kingdom of Signal is swallowed by the Empire of Noise The recent death of Walter Cronkite spurred the predictable outpouring of tributes, each reverencing in its own way a man who was the face and voice of journalism in America for a generation or more. The irony of all