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Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy | Batya Ungar-Sargon
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"Bad News is a response to Thomas Frank's 2004 book "What's the Matter with Kansas." I ask the same question he asked about the right, but about the left: Why is the media obsessed with racism, even though it's getting objectively better by every measure we have? I argue that the liberal media is mainstreaming a woke culture war based on ideas that were relegated to the academic fringe as recently as a decade ago because it's in their economic interests to do so. It explores how digital media and social media supplied journalists, now part of the American elite, with an alternative way to feel like heroes while further consolidating power and wealth in the hands of the few rather than the many. The book then explores the larger context of the great American class divide, and how journalism has been both a product and accelerator of inequality"--
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4.0 Stars • "Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy" by Batya Ungar-Sargon argues that the transformation of journalism from a blue-collar profession to an elite, highly educated field has shifted media focus from class issues to identity politics, particularly race. ⬇️

suvata This shift, according to Ungar-Sargon, serves the interests of urban, upper-class liberals, thereby neglecting the broader democratic needs of all citizens, including the working class. The book critiques how this "woke" media undermines democracy by creating a culture war around identity, which distracts from real economic and social issues, ultimately consolidating power among liberal elites.@ 2mo
Texreader Very interesting 2mo
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Tkgbjenn1
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Another great book on how the media drives public policy and the divisions in the country. This one focuses on Wokeism. Most of what I read makes very good point. However I‘m burnt out.

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Interesting read.
Good understanding of the history of the New York Times, how papers sell advertising and what agendas they are pushing today.
Gave me some more people to follow on Twitter too!