Journalists and commentators have always had their political biases. It’s nothing new. However, in her new book, “Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy,” Batya Ungar-Sargon, deputy opinion editor at Newsweek, argues that wokeness, a far-left, activist political ideology that means a person is awake to institutional or systemic racism, is contributing to many of the societal problems in the United States we’re facing today. This once-fringe philosophy, she writes, has now seeped into liberal media outlets and increasingly divided Americans.
“Bad News” opens with a scene in which CNN’s Don Lemon hosts a panel discussion about white women who voted for Trump. The panelists talk about how voting for Trump makes you a racist and that white women benefit from the white patriarchal system. The conversation then turned into one about how not just all white women, but all white people have a problem with racism.
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