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Podcast: Beyond Politics
Episode: Is Woke Media *Really* Killing Democracy (and Democrats)?
Description: Is something fundamentally wrong with American journalism? On the right, we know that there’s all of the “fake news” propaganda: Fox, the New York Post, and right-wing radio. But on the left, a growing number of experts believe that something has also gone badly off track. Our guest today says that what’s happened is that mainstream news is not liberal anymore; it’s woke: propagating radical ideas that were fringe as recently as a decade ago. So is this actually real? And how big a problem is it?
BATYA UNGAR-SARGON is the deputy opinion editor of Newswee...