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#81 - Media‘s Gentrification of the Working Class: A Dialogue with Batya Ungar-Sargon
#81 - Media‘s Gentrification of the Working Class: A Dialogue with Batya Ungar-Sargon
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102 minutes
Released:
Oct 24, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Batya Ungar-Sargon about journalism and the working class. They begin by discussing the history of journalism and the past emphasis of the working class being the main audience. They discuss why mass media has become highly polarized and the evolution of media being for elites. They talk about some of the incentives of media and speculate about some of the potential psychological explanations for the polarization in society. They discuss the impact of social media on media overall along with some of the differences in conservative and liberal media. They also talk about individual journalism and if institutions can be saved and many other topics.
Batya Ungar-Sargon is the Deputy Opinion Editor of Newsweek. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. You can purchase her book here. Twitter: @bungarsargon
Batya Ungar-Sargon is the Deputy Opinion Editor of Newsweek. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. You can purchase her book here. Twitter: @bungarsargon
Released:
Oct 24, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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