Why The Media Now Protect The Powerful | Batya Ungar-Sargon

[@Tara4Truth291]

I was finally able to watch this interview and quite frankly it moved me to tears. She gets it. She understands what we, the working class are up against. I grew up upper middle class and due to some bad choices in life and the present day economic crisis, I'm now working class. It's frightening to see what's happening to our society. I can only hope and pray and continue to work. hard to stay afloat . Thank you Andrew for bringing her on. I will be reading her books and hopefully get to see and hear more of her.

[@hankhooper1637]

Two of the best!

[@WhizzingFish12]

The old Thomas Sowell quote comes to mind: You should never allow yourself to be ruled by any group who pays no price for their bad decisions.

[@johnmulcahy5506]

This is a brilliant insight on the media and their evolving role as Pravda for the new “Elite.” Thanks, Andrew, for bringing Batya to our attention.

[@peetky8645]

i have never heard batya say a single silly thing in the thirty or so times i have heard her commentary.

[@daikini74]

She gives them a lot more credit than I think they deserve. Great interview, I want to read her books now. Hot ticket.

[@DMilbury]

That’s exactly what I said to myself. There is far more intent in how the elite operate than she either understands or is admitting.

[@paulcook3613]

I listened to the end, and was even more impressed. This young lady needs a wider reach, greater opportunity for influence.

[@ppcasey543]

"They want an economy that protects their labor" is a great statement on understanding... something. I'm going to have to read these books now! Thank you Mr. Klavan.

[@CounterCultureWISE]

She is delightful. I learned a lot from this interview.

[@JohnnyAloha69]

Fascinating discussion, puts the political divide into a new light!

[@phillipharris8277]

So, if the New Yak Times is supporting Kam, it's because she can deliver eight profitable years of anger.

[@Cjean821]

She’s so smart and eloquent. I need to buy her book

[@samcrihfield4744]

This was absolutely wonderful!!!!

[@joseph_donovan]

Batya Ungar-Sargon should be the Queen of Persia given that she is a delightful person who speaks so much truth and has an ineluctable respect for and understanding of the people.

[@shaunellis3060]

Absolutely love her & she always does hreat insightful interviews.

[@dalesquires9371]

Love you Andrew 😍 and Batya

[@kjparlay]

A perfect example of how journalists don't work on behalf of the working class is a clip I saw on Tucker where he showed an exchange between Don Lemon and a random middle aged man. It went like this: Don: Who are you voting for? Man: Trump Don: Why? Man: Things were better for me under Trump. Don: That's not true.

[@ZJCIOLEK]

Once upon a time the medias job was 'to afflict the comfortable & comfort the afflicted.'

[@williamtowery3586]

Love her! Great interview

[@watchingthewheelsgoround260]

My granddaddy got to go to Europe during WWII, his second chance was getting to come home with a Purple Heart and not in a pine box. And my grandmother grew up in a house with a dirt floor, one bulb hanging in the living room and an outhouse, in sw Florida. We have bugs bigger than jumanji. Instead of getting a folded flag. Please tell me how he brought his family from poverty to the middle class without working his arse off?! It didn’t happen without a strong faith in Christ Jesus, a lot of sacrifice and very hard work. Yet they made it on granddaddy’s pay while my grandmother stayed home and raise four daughters. They fought for their second chance, I suggest y’all do the same because nothing is free, EVER!

[@bobtaylor170]

Did you listen to what she said? Because your comment makes it seem as though you didn't hear a single word.

[@watchingthewheelsgoround260]

@@bobtaylor170my comment was not a slight towards her. It was about something in the context of deserving 2,3,4 or more chances in life because of inequality.

[@bobtaylor170]

@@watchingthewheelsgoround260 Ok.

[@tomasina10]

This is what people don’t see . I sit where I sit tonight on the shoulders of hardworking ancestors . Too many think walking over the border entitles them to what has taken some generations to achieve .

[@peetky8645]

women interring the work force in a big way in the 60's was the first wave of "immigrants" that lowered wages. now actual immigrants are doing the same at a time when fewer and fewer jobs remain. the downward pressure on wages is a recipe for social conflagration.

[@NMemone]

Bad News was terrific! I didn't realize Batya has a new book out. Ordering this one now. Thanks, Andrew!

[@edcotterjr1926]

Batya has it right. Left and Right are meaningless today. It's all about the upper class (based solely on income and wealth, not real class) protecting itself.

[@jakehutchison5761]

How very marxian of you

[@WhizzingFish12]

​@@jakehutchison5761Unfortunately it's largely true.

[@beckycarlson8423]

So good!!

[@laurelsternberg5861]

very interesting!! She's an excellent communicator.

[@douglaselkins1210]

Good discussion. Respect for their labor

[@russellpottenger8584]

Sorry I disagree with the guest. Government fixing prices, especially food prices which typically have a 1% margin isn’t the way to solve problems and ultimately will resort to hoarding and food shortages. I always lean to the side of Milton freeman, allowing the free market to do what it does best, and let the individual determine what’s best, and their own interests, rather than the government intervening into our lives

[@FarberBob678]

Same for me

[@jakehutchison5761]

Yeah shes a bit of a Marxist imo

[@bobtaylor170]

She's not advocating Harris economics! Clearly, she supports Trumponomics. Did you listen to a single word she said?!

[@mattharris1217]

Love this time slot !!!!🎉

[@sliprymexican]

Good interview as always

[@r_b5951]

She is correct that journalism used to be a working class occupation. Then it became a profession requiring a college degree and things began to change. A big milestone was Watergate, which propelled "Investigative Journalism" into our consciousness. As a kid I remember the mid-70's with multiple "investigative journalist" TV dramas on every network. The journalist was the hero, so by definition, whoever they were investigating was the villain. I remember feature length movies about them. One surprisingly cautionary tale was "Absence of Malice", and it has a message relevant today. By the late 1980, there were journalist shows on PBS, so few watched. When cable TV exploded, all those PBS shows went to cable TV, and journalist became celebrities. By around 1990, the goal of every journalist was to get to NY or DC in order to have a shot at a sweet gig on cable that would triple your salary for one evenings work a week. Occupation to profession to celebrity to elitist.

[@lenore8173]

Remarkable interview!

[@mariafernandamuanis5036]

Good intervew! Another piece of the puzzle is the size of the state. The bigger the state the bigger the “class of state agents” and more tax money goes for subsidizing that huge state. I have the impression that the democratic party wants to turn the US in Brazil…

[@fritzidler9871]

If you mean the movie "Brazil," I agree. A more realistic depiction of what is happening than "1984."

[@digitalnomad9985]

@@fritzidler9871 I didn't see the movie, but you seem to imply that the movie is a more realistic depiction of what is happening in Brazil than what his happening in Brazil. She references events and you divert from events to fiction.

[@NoCoverCharge]

Not a big daily wire fan except for Klavan I like this guy

[@deadpanbarry5442]

True... Same here. They seem to have lost alot of support.

[@dananders9676]

Watched this twice. Will be buying her second book first and then Bad News.

[@Sahmgirl]

Wow! This is so eye-opening!

[@tomasina10]

Great guest that many of Us would agree with . The border HAS to be number one ..this current situation is unsustainable and will not end well .

[@iangorner]

Thanks to Ms.Ungar -Sargon for writing Second Class. Highly recommended.

[@milo8425]

I adore her. She's sooooo utopian and half-intuitive but her worldview is common and I'd love to see her in a proper economic discussion w/ Ben or someone.

[@Albemarle7]

Read her books. She seems to suggesting a set of policies that 70% of the population could get behind. It is a path back to national unity and leaving behing the culture war.

[@josephshepard2962]

God bless Batya.

[@manpassnthru]

Wow! You'd almost think we plain folks were being played! Duh.

[@kodyvandyke1714]

Can you PLEEEEASE make a separate sharable clip from 21:00 on? Or several clips? About the transfer of wealth from the middle class to the top 20%. Incredible, astute, and needs to be shouted from the mountain tops!!!

[@Reply-who-me]

I don’t agree with everything she said but it does give insight to how the left became what it is.

[@PCBAPPR]

First attractive Leftist woman I've seen in a very long time. And I am not referring only to her looks, but to her open and fair-mindedness.

[@hrench]

Her position that journalism is rich people now is not wholly accurate. I know a 40+ year newspaper man / college adjunct professor who makes $46k a year. Super poor.

[@peetky8645]

46K is not a working class salary, although under bidenflation, it may soon be.

[@WhizzingFish12]

Shes talking much more about elite national media figures, not the local guy. But even lower income journalists FEEL that they are part of the cultural elite.

[@janpolo799]

Thank you for describing Trumpers so well. Peace and no wars

[@evasionbycartwheel12345]

I wouldnt say right wing working class people dont agree with most of the left and lgrbq stuff. And i think its mostly because the left has mde it that way with calling people deplorables and racists.

[@kjoc70]

NAFTA was negotiated by the GHW Buush administration, though Clinton did advocate it when he came into office.

[@donlovell-m2r]

Batya does the work.

[@cynthiaguest4509]

Great episode! Apropos of nothing, Kimchi Duhl

[@kham6006]

I really like batya

[@marksutton5540]

News services were never without bias, but could it have ever been this bad? Totally unrelated!

Work provides purpose and government handouts should be a shame upon those receiving it.

[@joedanker3267]

I think she gets a lot right. But she swings and misses when she says the elites are polarized so they want us polarized. I don't think that's their motivation and I don't think they have been polarized until as of very recent.

[@kjoc70]

She misses the influence of wire services on journalistic objectivity.

[@stnger9]

I didn't get the Prince of Persia reference but it's been awhile since I've played.

[@vickihayes3914]

And Trump opened up the gas drilling! That kept cost of goods and energy costa.

[@frankcolasanto2519]

As he plugs his book😊

[@rhondaharris398]

His show

[@christopherdale1745]

I don't understand why wealth inequality should matterr to me. If the ultra-wealthy have any impact on me at all, it's a positive impact.

[@peetky8645]

she is arguing that the upper middle class get their yards mowed and home additions and pools build with largely cheap immigrant labor that has undermined the wages of working class americans. there ate so few "ultra wealthy" people in the society that their actions matter less to the large working class. it is the upper 19% that drive policies, not the top 1%.

[@VPirate84]

Hello

[@jonsmith2061]

Journalism died with Dan Rather.

[@tyroneosume8490]

I've discovered a soundtrack to all this loony leftie woke nonsense - an album called The Voice Of Reason by a band called UNIT, based in (I think) Scotland. Almost every track is inspired by Prageru, The Daily Wire or TSUSA. Their playlist appeared in my 'recommended' feed so it shows (probably by accident) even You Tube has its uses. I think you can find them easily enough by typing UNIT Salute The Flag Andy Martin. That's how I returned to the channel anyway. I've found a few more of their tracks which feature the voices of Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Brandon Tatum and others...but please don't ask. I know nothing about the group except their stuff has some excellent anti-woke lyrics and unusually original music.

[@christiansmith-of7dt]

At least now you guys are aware of how depressed you make people feel with the way you are currently doing things

[@seanjames9662]

She’s cute and smart 😍

[@Bazthedarkhorse]

#CommiesForTrump perfect! 😂

[@kham6006]

3 day blinds are horrible !

[@bobtaylor170]

The imbecility of some of the comments is shocking. A lot of people think she's an advocate of socialist economics and she clearly is not. Andrew, you have a significant problem with dullardliness in your audience.

[@peetky8645]

i don't think she is a free market person. she is a reasonable classical liberal rather than a progressive.

[@davidwell686]

The Left is always so angry.

[@karenclark266]

While Batya seems like a sincere person, she's definitely not an economist and knows even less about finances than most. Her book, "Second Class" is seeped in the wrong think of people who pretend to understand economics but clearly don't. She's passionately pro-union but they benefit the few in the system and cause economic harm to everyone else. She promotes more regulations - which is the cause of much of the economic hardships that businesses suffer under. She talks about a caste system which is the Marxist view. US economic classes are more dynamic and fluid than Batya understands. Corporate gouging is a bogeyman and straw argument. Anyone who sells a simple solution to an incredibly complex problem is self-serving and incoherent.

[@bobtaylor170]

You're self serving because you're inattentive to anything outside yourself. Your comment makes it seem as though you think the idea of a strong and large middle class is a fantasy, yet by the mid 1950s, we were achieving one. We had one secured by 1960. The New Yorker magazine, which appealed to some actual New Yorkers but had its biggest appeal to us provincials, had its strongest year of advertising revenue in 1962. There is a reason so many Baby Boom adults are as nostalgic for that time in American life as we are, nuclear missile rattling from the Soviets notwithstanding.

[@peetky8645]

steeped? she is not in favor a a caste system, but she believes upward mobility is vanishing in america.

[@jmcampbell05]

SHE'S STEALING SOMEONE ELSE'S THESIS: SOMEONE ELSE, YEARS AGO, PROFERRED THIS EXPLANATION (BANNON?)

[@WhizzingFish12]

She gives him credit in this very episode.

[@merrillmilner8717]

You lost me at LBGT.

[@joedanker3267]

I might be in love with her.

[@Angrypleb-j4e]

Batya makes good points, but she can’t get the liberal elitist stink off of her. The way she talks about the working class is incredibly patronizing and based on some idealistic assumptions about what the working class wants.

[@WhizzingFish12]

She has carved out a niche using her "celebrity" to advocate for the working class. I respect that she's at least doing that instead of what so many other "journalists" are doing. And her work is highly informed by doing HUNDREDS (if not thousands) of direct interviews with working class Americans. She strikes me not as patronizing but as sincerely trying to give voice to their aspirations and frustrations.

[@Angrypleb-j4e]

@@WhizzingFish12 I listened to her after the DNC and I’ll admit that I may have been too hasty in my critique.

[@tedkay5272]

Early Klavan

[@mikewhiting5707]

i think she has been crying