Human Resources - Is That a Bad Idea?

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i recently had to take the sensitivity training in a race, in insects, discrimination sensitive i one of these programmes that all employees have to go through. And they're getting more sophisticated, so you can't just blow through it really fast case thy have timers on each unit. So i now goes open. I'm reading something, and then i wait for the clock to go and i don't read any of the scenarios,. cause i already know what the answer to every one of the scenarios are, which is, call h r, turn it over to let all human resource take care of the problem. They're so lame. It's not not rasonene, it's t e economy

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.