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This episode is dedicated to the culture war, and not just the culture war in general,

but its most intensely contested war zone, the fight over

liberal media bias. If your Thanksgiving dinner was ruined by a political

argument last week, there's a good chance that this subject is what you were arguing about.

My guest this week is Batchia Unger Sargon, author of the newly published book,

Bad News, How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy.

And from the title you'd think that she was either how woke media is undermining democracy.

And from the title you'd think that she was either a host at Fox News

or at least someone eager for the job.

But Ungar Sargon has a more nuanced backstory. She's an editor at Newsweek. And in her book she

expresses a strong nostalgic streak for old school socialists, including the kind Bernie Sanders

used to be before he began playing to the ultra progressive

campus crowd in the run up to the 2020 election. As Ungar Sargon sees it in fact,

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