The Woke Media with Batya Ungar-Sargon

Batya Ungar-Sargon is the author of the new book, Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy. She is the deputy opinion editor of Newsweek. Before that, she was the opinion editor of the Forward, the largest Jewish media outlet in America. She has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, the New York Review of Books Daily, and other publications. She has appeared numerous times on MSNBC, NBC, the Brian Lehrer Show, NPR, FOX and other media outlets. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Batya Ubers in to the LongDays studio, despite fearing for her life because it seemed like her driver was a Russian mafioso, to dissect wokeness and talk about her hit, new book, Bad News. She has been making a splash on all the news outlets talking about her premise and clips of this have been circulating twitter to millions. This well needed book gets behind what wokeness is really all about and how it has betrayed journalism’s roots and purpose. Yanni & Batya have tons of laughs and unpack some of parallels of wokeness in journalism and comedy. It’s an absolute watch or listen! Find out what’s really behind woke media and why. Enjoy your LongDay and stay woke! Buy her book on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Bad-News-Media-Undermining-Democracy/dp/1641772069/ref=nodl_ Yanni tour dates & tickets: https://www.yannispappascomedy.com Join for weekly Bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/yannilongdays LongDays is now officially going twice a week. Every Saturday & Thursday night. One weekly solo pod & a chat pod on Thursdays. Enjoy you hyenas! The show goes out every Saturday night & Thursdays to youtube and podcast audio platforms but while it's being recorded the show goes LIVE on Yannis' Instagram on Wednesdays. Come join in on the LONG DAY & Follow Yannis Pappas Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/yannispappas/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/yannispappas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices