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A society where everybody goes to an elite college and becomes like some sort of professional, that's not a sustainable society. We need people who make things and move things and bring things and cook things and write. So again, channeling that kind of shelby steeler just say, the right wing or conservative argument, ah, if asians, when they get off the boat, just put their kids through these training programmes, why can't people of color, noblacks or ispanics do this? And again, the shelby steel argument is something like, because they're they don't have a intact home, they don't has a father and a mother,. They don't

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.