reading: Bad News by Batya Ungar-Sargon 📚 "Racism is still a blight on American life. But wokeness is not how we heal; it has simply redefined the problem to the benefit of educated elites. By focusing on immutable characteristics like race, the woke moral panic has allowed economic elites to evade responsibility for their regressive view that elites should not only exist but rule. And in presenting race rather than class and income as America’s deep and worsening divide, the purveyors of wokeness have ended up comforting white, liberal elites, even as they have called them white supremacists." It ... dispatchesfromtheempire.net

@devilgate her argument is that the owners and the rank-and-file journalists are all on the side of the elite, which I just can’t get behind. Many owners, sure. But not those working the newsrooms.

Now, maybe that changes for different mediums. When I think of journalism, I think of newspapers. I’m sure the tenor of cable news is very different.

@dispatchesfrom Yeah, that does seem ridiculous.