(Airs 01/30/22 @ 6 p.m. & 01/31/22 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, former Times Union Editor and current columnist Rex Smith, Rosemary Armao, Investigative Journalist and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany, and Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Rosemary, Ira and Rex talk about reporters in danger, ESPN’s decision not to send reporters to the Olympics, President Biden being caught criticizing a Fox News journalist on a hot mic, and much more.
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Santa Claus using a computer in his house to do a Christmas video conference.Sisoje/Getty Images
It s been almost 200 years since A Visit from St. Nicholas better known today as Twas the Night Before Christmas was published in the Troy Sentinel on Dec. 23, 1823. Columnist Joyce Bassett shares the curious, local history of the now-famous poem.
Are meal and grocery delivery drivers clocking more miles than Santa? Table Hopping s Steve Barnes spoke to locals who are providing this essential service during the pandemic.
Editorial writer and editor Akum Norder shares adorable local letters to Santa that appeared in the the Dec. 24, 1900, issue of the Times-Union (hyphenated then). Plus, columnist Paul Grondahl takes a look at what s in Santa s mailbox this year.