I think that that would go a long way to explaining trumps victory in 20 16. And ill hear hilary saying more comment about the deplorables. Well, those people are not idiots. They know theyre being insulted. If you call em races, and they're not races, most of em are not. We need strict laws to protect people's freedom by restricting their freedom. You're not free to do anything you want. That's good. I like your vainthat sense. It is kind of a libertarian position, although what abouto conflicting issues? People should not be free to drive on either side of the road they want. So thatis evidence for my side
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.