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In the book ‘Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy,’ Batya Ungar-Sargon urges news consumers to champion unpopular opinions—but is it enough? For those who don’t have the Washington Post as your local newspaper, let me tell you what it’s like opening up the print edition each morning over breakfast. The front page inevitably has a story on race — today as I write this article, it’s on how word games like crossword puzzles and scrabble suffer from “systemic racism.”
The next section, “Metro,” tracks local (often race-related) news, like a recent article by leftist columnist Petula Dvorak on a couple Virginians putting racist things in their front yards. Next is “Style,” which covers entertainment and fashion… as it relates to race, such as a recent feature on black women and reality TV. Finally comes “Sports,” which, no surprise, has multiple stories on race, such as former Raiders coach Jon Gruden being labeled a racist, or how women’s rugby needs more black players.
Sometimes I play a game in which I try to see if the WaPo can go a day without having an article on race in every single section of the paper. Most days I lose. And if it’s not race, there will inevitably be some other hobbyhorse of identity politics — feminism, LGBTQ+, transgenderism — that takes the place of race. Sometimes the WaPo gets extra points by figuring out how to combine them all, say, with an exclusive report on black transgender feminists.
It didn’t used to be this way. When I was going through my deceased father’s files, I found an old Washington Post from the 1980s that included an entire section on the upcoming hunting season. If the WaPo bothers to report on hunting now, its writers are so clueless on the subject they call bowhunting “archery.” Today they’d probably either label hunting systemically racist, or do a feature on a black transgender feminist bowhunter (surely there’s at least one).
How did the media’s nonstop obsession with identity politics happen? Batya Ungar-Sargon, the deputy opinion editor of Newsweek, has some ideas. In her new book Bad […]
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