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Yannis Pappas Hour

The Woke Media with Batya Ungar-Sargon

Yannis Pappas Hour

Yannis Pappas

News Commentary, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, News

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0

What's up everybody, welcome to another episode of Long Days.

0:29.2

I am very excited to have a little chat episode today.

0:32.4

We have a real journalist here, not like me, although my Twitter bio does say journalists

0:37.8

and scientists, I have to admit I'm a liar, I'm a liar and there's no consequences

0:42.5

for it.

0:43.5

My pronouns are not he-ha, but that's what I put on my profile so it has to be right.

0:49.9

We got an actual real journalist, we put her in an Uber, she thought she was going to

0:53.4

get killed by the Russian mob on the way here and then she came and she used a bathroom

0:57.4

that has no mirror.

0:59.9

But I gave her a nice glass of water, de Blasio's finest, I mean are you used to this level

1:06.2

of green room treatment to just walk into the first apartment I ever bought?

1:10.6

I mean would you ever think in this, you have to admit before we start because your book

1:15.5

is incredible, obviously you got this clip going around that's gone viral.

1:21.5

Is this not an indication doing this podcast today, what kind of crazy world we're living

1:27.9

in where there are kind of Arnold rules that you took an Uber here, this is going out

1:33.0

to a lot of people believe it or not and this is the scenery here, this is a real, this

1:37.6

is media now.

1:38.6

I have to say like I really feel like I made it, like sitting here like just with you and

1:45.1

knowing that anything could happen.

1:47.0

Yes, anything could happen, like I said was a comedian's podcast so it starts wrong.

1:51.4

So it can't go right.

1:53.3

But I know when you were a little girl dreaming about being a journalist, you probably thought

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