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02585aam a2200385 i 4500 001 4D4A06AE323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211021010114 008 210318s2021 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021010941 020 $a 1641772069 020 $a 9781641772068 035 $a (OCoLC)1243909867 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 082 00 $a 070.4/4932 $2 23 100 1 $a Ungar-Sargon, Batya, $d 1981- $e author. 245 10 $a Bad news : $b how woke media is undermining democracy / $c Batya Ungar-Sargon. 246 30 $a How woke media is undermining democracy 250 $a First American edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Encounter Books, $c 2021. 300 $a 301 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Bad News is a response to Thomas Frank's 2004 book "What's the Matter with Kansas." I ask the same question he asked about the right, but about the left: Why is the media obsessed with racism, even though it's getting objectively better by every measure we have? I argue that the liberal media is mainstreaming a woke culture war based on ideas that were relegated to the academic fringe as recently as a decade ago because it's in their economic interests to do so. It explores how digital media and social media supplied journalists, now part of the American elite, with an alternative way to feel like heroes while further consolidating power and wealth in the hands of the few rather than the many. The book then explores the larger context of the great American class divide, and how journalism has been both a product and accelerator of inequality"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Joseph Pulitzer's populist revolution -- A respectability Counterrevolution -- A status revolution -- The abandonment of the working class -- A digital revolution -- The lesson of the Trump era -- A great awokening -- A moral panic -- A rich debate within the Black community -- Case studies -- How the left perpetuates inequality and undermines democracy -- Epilogue. 650 0 $a Mass media $x Political aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Press and politics $z United States. 650 0 $a Right and left (Political science) $z United States $x History $y 21st century. 941 $a 3 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010030745.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20211203011210.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211021010738.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4D4A06AE323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search