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Bad News

By Batya Ungar-Sargon

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Bad News

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"Bad News is a response to Thomas Frank's 2004 book "What's the Matter with Kansas." I ask the same question he asked about the right, but about the left: Why is the media obsessed with racism, even though it's getting objectively better by every measure we have? I argue that the liberal media is mainstreaming a woke culture war based on ideas that were relegated to the academic fringe as recently as a decade ago because it's in their economic interests to do so. It explores how digital media and social media supplied journalists, now part of the American elite, with an alternative way to feel like heroes while further consolidating power and wealth in the hands of the few rather than the many. The book then explores the larger context of the great American class divide, and how journalism has been both a product and accelerator of inequality"--
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Number of Pages:
312
Release Date:
2021-10-26
Publication Date:
2021-10-26
Publisher:
Encounter Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1641772069
ISBN13:
9781641772068
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
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Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
614 g
Height:
158 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
28 cm

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