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Podcast: The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
Episode: How The News Went Insane: Batya Ungar-Sargon On The Social Rise and Intellectual Fall of Legacy Media
Description: Regular listeners of this podcast are no strangers to the subject of political bias in the news media - especially the left wing, elite-driven bias that's in heavy rotation in the opinion and culture sections of big news organizations like The New York Times, The Washington Post and NPR. But as much as we talk about the social movements driving this trend, we think less often about the practical reasons and bottom line root causes. That's exactly Batya Ungar-Sargon explores in her new book Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy. In this conversation, Batya explains how journalism...