What Corrupted American Journalism, Interview with Journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon

Author of Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy

Here is the first episode of the Happy Warrior Podcast Relaunch!

Pete interviews Journalist & Author Batya Ungar-Sargon, Author of Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy!

Why is American Journalism so corrupt?

In the face of the Canadian Trucker Story & the failures of US journalists to cover topics that matter to normal Americans, it's worth asking how did US journalism end up being so useless and corrupt.

In our interview, Batya goes through the history of journalism, how wokeness and progressive elite biases dominated US news and what can be done about it.

BATYA UNGAR-SARGON is the deputy opinion editor of Newsweek. Before that, she was the opinion editor of the Forward, the largest Jewish media outlet in America. She has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, the New York Review of Books Daily, and other publications. She has appeared numerous times on MSNBC, NBC, the Brian Lehrer Show, NPR, and other media outlets. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.