Category Archives: Journalism

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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The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility

Posted on February 4, 2024 by Luke Ford

In this 2014 book from Oxford University Press, academics Jeffrey M. Berry and Sarah Sobieraj note: * Outrage discourse involves efforts to provoke emotional responses (e.g., anger, fear, moral indignation) from the audience through the use of overgeneralizations, sensationalism, misleading … Continue reading →

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Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States

Posted on January 21, 2024 by Luke Ford

Political scientist Dannagal Goldthwaite Young writes in this 2019 book: * In their 2014 book The Outrage Industry, Jeffrey Berry and Sarah Sobieraj chronicle the growth of a new genre of political programming through the 2000s; programming that places a … Continue reading →

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Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

Posted on January 17, 2024 by Luke Ford

The world is a big oozing mess, but to create meaning and order in our lives, we develop and sanctify boundaries between the clean and the dirty, the heroic and the cowardly. Here are some excerpts from this 2023 book … Continue reading →

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