The Politics of Race and Police Violence in the United States

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In england, you can tell by some one's accent to within 20, 30 miles where they were born. In america, we don't have accents. We have words like latin x,. It's a marker of class more than it is of anything else. But that's been dressed up as virtue by progressives to hide the degree to which they are so much richer than the middle and working class Americans they used to represent. And also, the the one that, i know that this is maybe ironic, but, e, the one that offends me the most is the insulting, you know, i'm jewish. Like they will never be true of israeli people

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.