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Batya Ungar-Sargon is deputy opinion editor of Newsweek, and author of \\u2018Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy.\\u2019 Before Newsweek, Batya was opinion editor of The Forward, the largest Jewish media outlet in America, and has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, and appears regularly on MSNBC and CNN. In this in-depth interview, Batya argues that mainstream news is \\u201cno longer just liberal,\\u201d but by being \\u201cwoke\\u201d is \\u201cabandoning the working class by creating a culture war around identity;\\u201d argues \\u201cthe media chasing the profit through outrage\\u201d is leading to the current crisis of misinformation and so-called fake news; and expresses her anguish that opinions have become so polarised - appealing for people \\u201cto find ways to meet people who you disagree with.\\u201d