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Something is wrong with American journalism. Long before \\u201cfake news\\u201d became the calling card of the Right, Americans had lost faith in their news media. But lately, the feeling that something is off has become impossible to ignore. That\\u2019s because the majority of our mainstream news is no longer just liberal; it\\u2019s woke. Today\\u2019s newsrooms are propagating radical ideas that were fringe as recently as a decade ago, including \\u201cantiracism,\\u201d intersectionality, open borders, and critical race theory. How did this come to be? It all has to do with who our news media is written by \\u2014 and who it is written for.

Michael Shermer speaks with Batya Ungar-Sargon about her new book Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy in which she reveals how American journalism underwent a status revolution over the twentieth century \\u2014 from a blue-collar trade to an elite profession. As a result, journalists shifted their focus away from the working class and toward the concerns of their affluent, highly educated peers.

Ungar-Sargon avers that, in abandoning the working class by creating a culture war around identity, our national media is undermining American democracy.