Bad News: How Woke Media Undermines Democracy with Batya Ungar-Sargon

In today’s episode Ralph speaks with Newsweek’s deputy opinion
editor Batya Ungar-Sargon (make sure to follow her on Twitter
@bungarsargon) about the state of the Western working class, how
elitism in the media has become a threat to democracy, and why
Donald Trump might have enduring appeal.


Ms. Ungar-Sargon has published her first book “Bad News: How Woke
Media is Undermining Democracy” in October 2021. You can get it
on Amazon and other booksellers (I highly recommend you do) and
on May 10th the audiobook read by the author herself will be
available as well.


In her book she describes how the Media shifted from being
critical of those who held powerful positions in society to
becoming part of the very powerful elites they were supposed to
be critical of. Under the guise of culture wars Ms. Ungar-Sargon
detects an actual class conflict that is deliberately (albeit
maybe also unconsciously) obfuscated by focusing on cultural
issues.


he has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post,
Foreign Policy, Newsweek, the New York Review of Books Daily, and
other publications. She has appeared numerous times on MSNBC,
NBC, the Brian Lehrer Show, NPR, and at other media outlets.