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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson (b. 1975) speaks in a warm mid-register baritone with a soft Southern coloring, not the heavy drawl a listener might expect from an Atlanta host. He grew up partly in Dubai and trained as a lawyer at Mercer, … Continue reading
The Phil Hendrie Show
Phil Hendrie (b. 1952) is an American broadcaster who turned talk radio into live improvised theater. Most hosts in the form built careers on journalism, political argument, or celebrity interviews. Hendrie built his on performance. Across the 1990s and early … Continue reading
KFI Talk Radio Programmer Robin Bertolucci
As a talk radio programmer, Robin Bertolucci hires the hosts, shapes the format, sets the editorial line, manages the talent through their better and worse days, and absorbs the controversies the audience never sees. For more than two decades that … Continue reading
Talk Radio Programmer David G. Hall
David G. Hall mainly worked behind the microphone rather than in front of it. As a reporter, news director, program director, syndication executive, and talent coach, he helped move talk radio from a narrow public-affairs format toward a mass-market medium … Continue reading
The Jesus Christ Show On KFI
Neil Saavedra runs the longest-running gimmick in Los Angeles religious radio, and the gimmick works because he never plays it for laughs. He hosts The Jesus Christ Show on KFI AM 640, the flagship, syndicated through Premiere Networks, billed as … Continue reading
The John Chester Kobylt Show
John Kobylt comes out of working-class Paterson, New Jersey, and he has never sanded that off. The accent stays nasal and flat, the vowels hard, the consonants clipped. He sounds like a guy yelling across a body shop, and he … Continue reading
The Bill Handel Show
Bill Handel (b. 1951) built a voice out of impatience. He talks fast, low, and dry, with a rasp that sounds like a man who has already heard your problem a thousand times and finds it tedious. The rhythm is … Continue reading
The Glenn Beck Show
Glenn Beck (b. 1964) trained in Top 40 morning radio, and that schooling shows in everything he does behind a microphone. He learned the trade as a teenage DJ and then a “morning zoo” host, where the job is to … Continue reading
Iran Launches Fresh Missile Attacks On Israel (6-7-26)
01:00 Autumn Gold film, https://www.autumngoldfilm.com/02:00 Autumn Gold: Secrecy, Time, and the Recovery of Truth, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=19096803:00 Eric Longabardi: An Investigative Journalist Between Two Media Orders, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=19094908:00 Project Shad, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SHAD10:00 Project 112, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_11221:00 Operation Tailwind, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tailwind23:00 CBS Evening News broke the story … Continue reading
Who Are The Leading Public Intellectuals Doing The Least Alliance Work?
Alliance work is a behavior, not a property of a man. The same writer can do almost none of it on one subject and a great deal on another. John McWhorter (b. 1965) imposes costs on his own side when … Continue reading