I Don't Think the Government Should Be Out There Telling People to Get Married

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I don't think the government should be out there pu, you know, telling people you must get married. But somehow reverse engineer the problems that i think the government did create would be a really smart thing to think about. And surely there's something in between the two. I agree with you. There could be a cultural push towards that,. influencers and so forth, people, You know, and it's more the kind of the anti marriage, anti stable family rhetoric thatthat's so identified with characters like "the left"

Something is wrong with American journalism. Long before “fake news” 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. That’s because the majority of our mainstream news is no longer just liberal; it’s woke. Today’s newsrooms are propagating radical ideas that were fringe as recently as a decade ago, including “antiracism,” 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 by — and who it is written for.

Michael Shermer speaks with Batya Ungar-Sargon about her new book Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy in which she reveals how American journalism underwent a status revolution over the twentieth century — from 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.

Ungar-Sargon avers that, in abandoning the working class by creating a culture war around identity, our national media is undermining American democracy.