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At least the NYT has the excuse that Canton has been an uncanny bellwether of presidential prospects in several elections.
Intel is a true tech bellwether, since its chips go into most of the PCs in the world, meaning that if it's having trouble, a lot of other companies probably are, too.
The Los Angeles Times leads local but with the sort of California first that often becomes a bellwether: Because diesel fumes are generally blamed for much of the cancer risk posed by Los Angeles' air pollution, the Southern California air quality agency plans to propose requiring all bus, truck, and car fleets operated by public agencies to eventually be entirely composed of vehicles running on electricity, natural gas, and other clean-burning fuels.
With the rare exception, just about every tech bellwether that's reported has come in ahead of expectations, and those were expectations that were about as high as any reasonable person could put them.
Observers debated whether the Golden Globes were the Oscars' 1) more genuine and enjoyable counterpart; 2) silly and irrelevant second cousin; or 3) most accurate bellwether.