Category Archives: Journalism

Yesterday’s News Tomorrow: Inside American Jewish Journalism

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Luke Ford

I asked Grok for an analysis of my 2004 book: Yesterday’s News Tomorrow: Inside American Jewish Journalism, published by iUniverse, Inc. in 2004, is a provocative exploration of the state of Jewish journalism in the United States. Authored by Luke … Continue reading →

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What was going on with journalist Michael Hastings before his fiery death?

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Luke Ford

Grok says: Michael Hastings, the journalist behind the explosive Rolling Stone piece “The Runaway General” that toppled General Stanley McChrystal in 2010, was a live wire in the years before his death on June 18, 2013. His final months were … Continue reading →

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How To Decode The News (3-12-25)

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Luke Ford

News Is A Stress Test, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=147167What Should You Expect From The News?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146911How The News Differs From Reality, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=144347HBO’s Small Town News & That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ (8-3-21), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141668Can We Be Happy When The News Does Not Go … Continue reading →

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Postjournalism and the death of newspapers. The media after Trump: manufacturing anger and polarization (2020)

Posted on February 27, 2025 by Luke Ford

Andrey Mir writes in this 2020 book: * Fake news is an overhyped issue. The greatest harm caused by media is polarization, and the biggest issue is that polarization has become systemically embedded into both social media and the mass … Continue reading →

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The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch

Posted on February 22, 2025 by Luke Ford

Paddy Manning writes in this 2022 book: * Lachlan and Sarah decided they’d had enough and moved back to Sydney with their three kids … perhaps for good. Lachlan might not say so publicly, but in his bones he believed … Continue reading →

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