Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy - Ungar-Sargon Batya
Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy - Ungar-Sargon Batya Bad News is a response to Thomas Frank's 2004 book What's the Matter with Kansas. I argue that the liberal media is…
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Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy - Ungar-Sargon Batya
Bad News is a response to Thomas Frank's 2004 book What's the Matter with Kansas. 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.As American journalism has gone from a working-class trade to an elite caste, it has abandoned the economic fight of the little guy in favor of a culture war that protects its own financial interests while masquerading as social justice. 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?
This is how you end up with the On the business side, digital media pressures and social media rewards combined to make a woke culture war the perfect displacement exercise.