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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Self After the Drink: Allen Berger and the Second Stage of Recovery
Allen Berger helped turn sobriety from a chemical idea into a theory of emotional adulthood. A clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and addiction counselor, a Vietnam veteran, and a long participant in Twelve Step recovery, he became a major interpreter of what … Continue reading
Blog: Floyd Mayweather Jr. Sues Jonah Rechnitz Over Alleged $175 Million Fraud
Daniel Mael writes: Floyd Mayweather Jr. has filed a sweeping lawsuit against his former investment manager and real estate adviser, Jonah Rechnitz, alleging a multi-year fraudulent scheme that siphoned no less than $175 million from his business empire. The complaint, … Continue reading
‘How Jewish Is American Comedy?’
Steve Sailer writes: I’d say that with Wilder, Allen, and the Coens, Jewish comic film writers tended to have the longest runs near the top. This is not to say that they were necessarily the most brilliant at one point … Continue reading
The Bureau Man: Brit Hume and the Migration of Media Legitimacy
Brit Hume’s career runs across three media orders: the postwar network-broadcast consensus, the ideological fragmentation of cable, and the contemporary personality-driven news environment. Most later television commentators drew their authority from activism, celebrity, or ideological branding. Hume came up inside … Continue reading
The Grammar of the Question: John Sawatsky and the Science of the Interview
John Sawatsky’s name carries weight inside newsrooms and almost none outside them. He won no celebrity, advanced no ideology, and published no book that the general reading public remembers. His standing rests on taking the most ordinary act in reporting, … Continue reading
When Men Were Not Afraid (5-24-26)
01:00 When Men Were Not Afraid, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=18920705:00 Kurt Campbell on China, Allies, and US Power, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdrz-4aLOKk10:00 Biographies, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=18146312:00 Highlights, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14374619:00 Female Reporters in the Locker Room – What Was Gained & Lost?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=18923859:00 Marty Beckerman: The Last Freelancer of the … Continue reading
Female Reporters in the Locker Room – What Was Gained & Lost?
The access argument won because it was widely considered right. The story is made in the locker room. That is where the quotes are, in the minutes after the game while the emotion is still hot and the player has … Continue reading
Marty Beckerman: The Last Freelancer of the Pre-Platform Internet
Marty Beckerman (b. around 1982) is an American journalist, humorist, and author whose early career tracked the brief window when the internet had begun to weaken print gatekeepers but had not yet given way to platform consolidation. He was born … Continue reading
When Men Were Not Afraid
Before I fall asleep at night, I like to watch Youtube videos of Dallas Cowboys games from their Super Bowl winning 1977 season. I’m struck by the ease and confidence of the announcers. Sometimes, however, the men can be too … Continue reading
You Are Looking Live: Brent Musburger and the Architecture of the Spectacle
Brent Musburger (b. 1939) belongs to the small group of men who taught American television how to feel about sports. He worked for more than five decades across newspapers, network television, cable, and gambling media, and in each setting he … Continue reading