411. How Woke Liberal Elites Took Over The Media - Batya Ungar-Sargon

Batya Ungar-Sargon is a the opinion editor of Newsweek and the author of Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy and a quite wonderful speaker and journalist. She talks about how journalists are too comfortable with authority, as they all come from the big universities now.  Get her new book Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women: https://amzn.to/3WLMjIY And get The Psychology of Secrets here: https://amzn.to/4aqViT1 _____________ Visit ExpressVPN.com/HERETICS, and get three extra months for free! _____________ Listen to our extra content: http://andrewgold.locals.com  Andrew on X: https://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/andrewgold_ok Heretics YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@andrewgoldheretics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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