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In These Times with Rabbi Ammi Hirsch: Batya Ungar-Sargon
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Does it feel like there's something off with American journalism?
In her new book, “Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy,” Newsweek's Batya Ungar-Sargon — a self-proclaimed "left-wing populist" — argues that fringe ideas from the elite left have taken over our newsrooms.
But a far cry from a right-wing attack on journalism, her book is a carefully researched history of American news media and where it started to seriously go wrong.
I hope you'll tune in and join me for this intimate conversation wherever you get your podcasts.