Category Archives: Journalism

Reading Against the Novel

Posted on June 27, 2024 by Luke Ford

Tim Parks writes for the July 18, 2024 edition of NYBooks.com: In hundreds of essays and reviews, the nineteenth-century lawyer and judge James Fitzjames Stephen considered the novel’s effects on society at a time when it was becoming the dominant … Continue reading →

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Journalistic Ethics (12-9-20)

Posted on June 19, 2024 by Luke Ford

I was watching this Mike Fisher video he was he was ranting about Skip Bayless. Troy Aikman, Fox football analyst and former Dallas Cowboy championship quarterback, also said how very disappointed he was that Fox had hired Skip Bayless to … Continue reading →

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The Biggest Lies In Contemporary Discourse

Posted on June 8, 2024 by Luke Ford

* The New York Times reports June 9, 2024: “Israel’s Euphoria Over Hostage Rescue May Be Fleeting” Is there any euphoria that isn’t fleeting? The same Times article continued: “The audacious [hostage rescue] operation did little to resolve the many … Continue reading →

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Decoding Dan Rather (5-12-24)

Posted on May 12, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 Dan Rather, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rather07:00 Did the press uncover watergate? https://www.commentary.org/articles/edward-epstein-3/did-the-press-uncover-watergate/09:00 Netflix documentary on civil rights, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14897611:00 The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties–A Conversation with Author Christopher Caldwell, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36-nBl5uBmc20:00 Women, mediocrity and excellence, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=12913225:00 The Age of Entitlement: America … Continue reading →

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The Strange Death Of Danny Casolaro

Posted on March 3, 2024 by Luke Ford

Ron Rosenbaum wrote for Vanity Fair in 1991: I believe that, in a sense, Danny was correct when he worried he might have been “targeted” with a “slow-acting brain virus.” Not exactly the organic virus he worried about, not Mad … Continue reading →

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