Is Democracy in the Interest of the People?

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Democracy means people have the right to be wrong about things and still have their way, like, try things out. I think covet was just a perfect example of how complex it is to measure interests. The elites believe these are not in their economic interests but they know what's in their interest. And so i guess im, you know, i don't think that the problem is a lack of information. I think that theProblem is a Lack of respect for for what people want,. Like there's so many examples of this, like in the media.

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.