Summary of Batya Ungar-Sargon's Bad News

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Get the Summary of Batya Ungar-Sargon's Bad News in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Something is wrong with American journalism. Long before “fake news” became the calling card of the Right, Americans had lost faith in their news media. But lately, the feeling that something is off has become impossible to ignore. That’s because the majority of our mainstream news is no longer just liberal; it’s woke. Today’s newsrooms are propagating radical ideas that were fringe as recently as a decade ago, including “antiracism,” intersectionality, open borders, and critical race theory. How did this come to be?

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Nov 24, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638157953

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

American journalists used to fight for the less fortunate, but in recent times they’ve sided with the elite instead.

#2

The working class consisted of laborers and skilled artisans like masons, cabinetmakers, and tailors. They rarely went on strike because the press condemned such actions, and because the elites had a monopoly on knowledge.

#3

The idea of the penny newspaper was brought to America by the Irish journalist and printer James Gordon Bennett Sr. in 1832. It was meant to serve the poor, but many printers were afraid to publish it because of the low profit margins.

#4

The author was a newsboy who sold papers on the street. He realized that if he wanted to make any money, he needed to find a way to sell papers on the street, and not just deliver them. That is how he came up with the brilliant idea of selling newspapers on the streets.

#5

The Sun,