"...a timely and entertaining account of how class rivalries as well as political conflicts have shaped and sometimes warped the news industry."âMichael Lind, author of The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial EliteSomething is wrong with American journalism. Long before âfake newsâ became the calling card of the Right, Americans had lost faith in their news media. But lately, the feeling that something is off has become impossible to ignore. Thatâs because the majority of our mainstream news is no longer just liberal; itâs woke. Todayâs newsrooms are propagating radical ideas that were fringe as recently as a decade ago, including âantiracism,â intersectionality, open borders, and critical race theory. How did this come to be?It all has to do with who our news media is written byâand who it is written for. In Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, Batya Ungar-Sargon reveals how American journalism underwent a status revolution over the twentieth centuryâfrom a blue-collar trade to an elite profession. As a result, journalists shifted their focus away from the working class and toward the concerns of their affluent, highly educated peers. With the rise of the Internet and the implosion of local news, Americaâs elite news media became nationalized and its journalists affluent and ideological. And where once business concerns provided a countervailing force to push back against journalistsâ worst tendencies, the pressures of the digital media landscape now align corporate incentives with newsroom crusades.The truth is, the moral panic around race, encouraged by todayâs elite newsrooms, does little more than consolidate the power of liberal elites and protect their economic interests. And in abandoning the working class by creating a culture war around identity, our national media is undermining American democracy. Bad News explains how this happened, why it happened, and the dangers posed by this development if it continues unchecked.
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"...a timely and entertaining account of how class rivalries as well as political conflicts have shaped and sometimes warped the news industry."âMichael Lind, author of The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial EliteSomething is wrong with American journalism. Long before âfake newsâ became the calling card of the Right, Americans had lost faith in their news media. But lately, the feeling that something is off has become impossible to ignore. Thatâs because the majority of our mainstream news is no longer just liberal; itâs woke. Todayâs newsrooms are propagating radical ideas that were fringe as recently as a decade ago, including âantiracism,â intersectionality, open borders, and critical race theory. How did this come to be?It all has to do with who our news media is written byâand who it is written for. In Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, Batya Ungar-Sargon reveals how American journalism underwent a status revolution over the twentieth centuryâfrom a blue-collar trade to an elite profession. As a result, journalists shifted their focus away from the working class and toward the concerns of their affluent, highly educated peers. With the rise of the Internet and the implosion of local news, Americaâs elite news media became nationalized and its journalists affluent and ideological. And where once business concerns provided a countervailing force to push back against journalistsâ worst tendencies, the pressures of the digital media landscape now align corporate incentives with newsroom crusades.The truth is, the moral panic around race, encouraged by todayâs elite newsrooms, does little more than consolidate the power of liberal elites and protect their economic interests. And in abandoning the working class by creating a culture war around identity, our national media is undermining American democracy. Bad News explains how this happened, why it happened, and the dangers posed by this development if it continues unchecked.
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"...a timely and entertaining account of how class rivalries as well as political conflicts have shaped and sometimes warped the news industry."âMichael Lind, author of The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial EliteSomething is wrong with American journalism. Long before âfake newsâ became the calling card of the Right, Americans had lost faith in their news media. But lately, the feeling that something is off has become impossible to ignore. Thatâs because the majority of our mainstream news is no longer just liberal; itâs woke. Todayâs newsrooms are propagating radical ideas that were fringe as recently as a decade ago, including âantiracism,â intersectionality, open borders, and critical race theory. How did this come to be?It all has to do with who our news media is written byâand who it is written for. In Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, Batya Ungar-Sargon reveals how American journalism underwent a status revolution over the twentieth centuryâfrom a blue-collar trade to an elite profession. As a result, journalists shifted their focus away from the working class and toward the concerns of their affluent, highly educated peers. With the rise of the Internet and the implosion of local news, Americaâs elite news media became nationalized and its journalists affluent and ideological. And where once business concerns provided a countervailing force to push back against journalistsâ worst tendencies, the pressures of the digital media landscape now align corporate incentives with newsroom crusades.The truth is, the moral panic around race, encouraged by todayâs elite newsrooms, does little more than consolidate the power of liberal elites and protect their economic interests. And in abandoning the working class by creating a culture war around identity, our national media is undermining American democracy. Bad News explains how this happened, why it happened, and the dangers posed by this development if it continues unchecked.
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