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. In Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, Batya Ungar-Sargon 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. With the rise of the Interne
