How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy

* Book: Batya Ungar-Sargon. Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy.

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Matthew Goodwin:

"This brings us to one final possible explanation, which is the rise of a new and very different ‘click-bait’ business model for media. Unlike the past, journalists are now actively incentivised to promote topics and articles which are far more moralistic in tone, which trigger negative sentiment/emotions, and/or hostility toward perceived out-groups, both of which have been shown to drive media consumption. This is something that disillusioned American journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon writes about in her book, Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy, in which she argues that the rise of an elite media class is now colliding with this new click-bait model."

(https://mattgoodwin.substack.com/p/the-great-awokening-of-british-media?)

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• podcast interview with the author, https://tarahenley.substack.com/p/bad-news#details