Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy
| Author | Batya Ungar-Sargon |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Encounter Books |
Publication date | 2021 |
| OCLC | 1243909867 |
Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy is a 2021 nonfiction book by Batya Ungar-Sargon. Ungar-Sargon argues in the book that race-conscious wokeness provided by print media consumed by upper-class, educated readers has replaced the class-conscious reporting for a wider readership that dominated U.S. media in earlier periods, going back at least to the penny press era when low-cost newspapers were consumed by all classes.[1] The book says that an identity politics based culture war has become the focus of media "catering almost exclusively to the interests of urban, upper-class liberals".[2] Washington Independent Review of Books called it "the most penetrating analysis" of the state of mainstream media.[3]
References
[edit]Sources
[edit]- Stengel, Richard (October 7, 2023). "Press Gangs: Four recent books wrangle with threats to — and from — the American news media". The New York Times.
- González-Gallarza, Jorge (November 19, 2021), "How the News Got Woke—and Why It Matters", City Journal (book review)
- Delamaide, Darrell (January 13, 2022), "Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy", Washington Independent Review of Books (book review)
External links
[edit]- Discussion with Ungar-Sargon on Bad News, hosted by the American Enterprise Institute, October 18, 2021, C-SPAN
- Washington Journal interview with Ungar-Sargon on Bad News, October 24, 2021, C-SPAN
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