Media Masters - Batya Ungar-Sargon

Batya Ungar-Sargon is deputy opinion editor of Newsweek, and author of ‘Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy.’ Before Newsweek, Batya was opinion editor of The Forward, the largest Jewish media outlet in America, and has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, and appears regularly on MSNBC and CNN. In this in-depth interview, Batya argues that mainstream news is “no longer just liberal,” but by being “woke” is “abandoning the working class by creating a culture war around identity;” argues “the media chasing the profit through outrage” is leading to the current crisis of misinformation and so-called fake news; and expresses her anguish that opinions have become so polarised - appealing for people “to find ways to meet people who you disagree with.”