Tag: Batya Ungar-Sargon

Book Review: ‘Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy’

As the years have progressed in the 21st century, fewer and fewer Americans trust the media. According to the latest Gallup poll on the subject, only 36 percent of Americans do. There is plenty of reason for that, but the question is how did the media, or journalism, plummet to its current position. Batya Ungar-Sargon,…


Is Journalism Dead or Should It Be?

The Fourth Estate seems to have lost its place in American democracy. In fact, according to author and Newsweek deputy opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon, the media is undermining democracy. In her new book “Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy,” Batya suggests the media has moved from “liberal” to “woke,” leading Americans to no…


Batya Ungar-Sargon: How Woke Media Abandoned the Working Class and Monetized Outrage

“The woke language, although it sounds like social justice, it’s essentially an abandonment of the most vulnerable people of color, the most vulnerable Americans, the downwardly mobile, in the name of a social justice war that literally puts money in the pockets of liberal elites.” At the National Conservatism Conference in Orlando, Florida, I sat…


Mainstream Media Has Abandoned the American Working Class: Newsweek Editor

Police and health care workers, who were deemed heroes last year for working through the pandemic, now face being fired from their job if they don’t get vaccinated against COVID-19. Why are corporate media not giving them any gratitude, but instead “sneering or even rage?” According to Batya Ungar-Sargon, that’s because the mainstream media has…