Do You See a Decline in the New York Times?

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Am a fox news now is getting more democrats watching it than m s m b, c and c and n combined. The new york times used to have this mass appeal, but now 91% of its readers are Democrats. They've only ever wanted ruling class readers there. And i think the way to do that is to say no to the media hum or maybe just more options,. Just hundreds or thousands of options, and then no one has too much of a dominance. But didn't he ad in your book that the near times subscription rate has gone up since trump? I mean, you he denounced them, and then ofa sudden, the they started making more money. Although

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.