Corruption: An Inside Look at America's Media Agenda

Published: Nov. 8, 2021, 5 p.m.

On this episode of Feudal Future,  hosts Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky are joined by Batya Ungar-Sargon, deputy opinion editor of Newsweek, to discuss America's new journalism through digital media.

Batya Ungar-Sargon is the deputy opinion editor of Newsweek. Before that, she was the opinion editor of the Forward, the largest Jewish media outlet in America. She 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. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Her new book, "Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy" is available on amazon. Batya Ungar-Sargon reveals how American journalism underwent a status revolution over the twentieth century―from a blue-collar trade to an elite profession.

Purchase Batya's new book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Bad-News-Media-Undermining-Democracy/dp/1641772069


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