Category Archives: Journalism

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

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)

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)

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

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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How POLITICO suppressed Biden stories

Jim Geraghty writes: We always knew that large swaths of the mainstream media were going to treat Joe Biden with kid gloves for much of his presidency. Part of this was the usual preference for Democrats over Republicans. A lot … Continue reading

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