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Bad news : how woke media is undermining democracy / Batya Ungar-Sargon.
Fine Arts Library - Reserve P95.82.U6 U54 2021
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ungar-Sargon, Batya, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media--Political aspects--United States.
- Mass media.
- Press and politics--United States.
- Press and politics.
- Right and left (Political science)--United States--History--21st century.
- Right and left (Political science).
- Mass media--Political aspects.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 301 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York ; illustrations : Encounter Books, 2021.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One Joseph Pulitzer's Populist Revolution
- ch. Two A Respectability Counterrevolution
- ch. Three A Status Revolution
- ch. Four The Abandonment of the Working Class
- ch. Five A Digital Revolution
- ch. Sex The Lesson of the Trump Era
- ch. Seven A Great Awokening
- ch. Eight A Moral Panic
- ch. Nine A Rich Debate within the Black Community
- ch. Ten Case Studies
- ch. Eleven How the Left Perpetuates Inequality and Undermines Democracy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ungar-Sargon, Batya, 1981- Bad news
- ISBN:
- 9781641772068
- 1641772069
- OCLC:
- 1243909867
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