Author Archives: Luke Ford

About Luke Ford

I teach Alexander Technique in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com).

The Intonation of ABC News Anchor David Muir

David Muir (b. 1973) works the opposite seam from Scott Pelley, formerly of CBS News. Where Pelley flattens a sentence into an even gravity, Muir spikes it. His delivery runs on emphasis, sudden hard stresses dropped onto chosen words while … Continue reading

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Peter Zeihan: Geography, Demography, and the Forecast of Collapse

Peter Zeihan (b. 1973) works as an American geopolitical analyst, author, and consultant whose career sits between academic international relations, private strategic intelligence, and corporate forecasting. Over two decades he has become a popular interpreter of global demographic, geographic, energy, … Continue reading

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From the Op-Ed Page to the Newsroom: The Career of Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss (b. 1984) belongs to a generation of American writers who reached adulthood as the old gatekeepers lost their grip. She rises through Jewish journalism, arrives at the editorial pages of the country’s most prominent newspapers, breaks in public … Continue reading

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David Horovitz: Google’s Gemini AI admits it is unfit for purpose: ‘You should not trust a single thing I say’

I’ve noticed that the quality of Google’s search has steadily gone downhill since about 2011. I still use it though but its AI mode is horrible. David Horovitz writes: Using Google is increasingly unsatisfactory. And its AI tool is utterly … Continue reading

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Scott Pelley and the End of the Network-News Tradition

Scott Pelley (b. 1957) worked at CBS News for nearly four decades, and across that span he came to represent a professional culture whose origins trace to Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965) and Walter Cronkite (1916-2009). His career runs from the … Continue reading

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Eric Schulzke: A Life Across the Academy, the Newsroom, and the Prison Gate

Eric Schulzke (b. 1965) is an American political scientist, journalist, and nonprofit founder whose working life crosses three fields that rarely meet in one biography. He trained as a scholar of American political thought. He earned a doctorate in political … Continue reading

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Rob Stutzman: A Life in the California Political Trade

Rob Stutzman belongs to a generation of California political strategists whose work spans the move from late twentieth-century campaign politics to the modern public affairs industry. For more than three decades he has worked as a campaign consultant, a government … Continue reading

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Catherine Seipp and the Network That Replaced the Newsroom

Catherine Seipp (1957-2007) watched American media change from inside a city the rest of the press treated as a backwater. She held no large platform. She edited no major paper, hosted no national broadcast, owned no media company. She worked … Continue reading

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NYT: ‘Why Does No One Care About the World Cup This Year?’

David Wallace-Wells writes: What is more striking to me is the muted interest of the rest of the world, which every four years for decades seemed almost to pause for a month to engage in a truly global but appealingly … Continue reading

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Sheldon Adelson and the Journalists

Most rich men quarrel with reporters as subjects of coverage. Sheldon Adelson (1933-2021) did that, and then he did more. He sued reporters. He bought the newspaper that covered him. He founded a newspaper in another country and ran it … Continue reading

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