{"id":1667191,"date":"2022-09-30T20:19:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T00:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1667191"},"modified":"2022-09-30T20:21:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T00:21:28","slug":"woke-millennials-taking-control-of-mainstream-media-author-amber-athey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-millennials-taking-control-of-mainstream-media-author-amber-athey\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Woke Millennials\u2019 Taking Control of Mainstream Media: Author Amber Athey"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwoke-millennials-taking-control-of-mainstream-media-author-amber-athey%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1667191&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democrat-run, legacy mainstream media outlets are increasingly beholden to younger radical progressives, according to journalist, author, and political commentator Amber Athey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey thought the woke millennials were on their side \u2026 [and] quickly learned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/search\/?q=woke&amp;t=ai\">\u2018wokeism\u2019<\/a> does not accept anything but 100 percent fealty,\u201d said Athey during an interview with Epoch TV\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/c-american-thought-leaders\">American Thought Leaders.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Woke millennials want the left-wing organizations to adhere to their version of political correctness and truth. And if they don\u2019t, they will even be attacked as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/the-new-religion-how-marxists-substituted-race-for-economic-class_4322573.html?utm_source=ai&amp;utm_medium=search\">being racist<\/a>, transphobic, sexist, etc., said Athey, Washington editor for The Spectator and author of \u201cThe Snowflakes\u2019 Revolt: How Woke Millennials Hijacked American Media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those who work in mainstream media are \u201coverwhelmingly\u201d of a wealthy background, are registered Democrats, and believe in far-left causes or have ties to left-wing activism, she stated.<\/p>\n<p>Mainstream media outlets do not want to offend their audience, most of whom subscribe to far-left ideologies, and even run the risk of getting canceled by their own radical staff, Athey said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, The New York Times was forced to apologize for running an opinion piece by Sen.\u00a0Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) that advocated for activating the military to calm the streets during rioting in multiple cities. The op-ed, headlined \u201cSend in the Troops,\u201d was taken down after the newspaper\u2019s staff revolted and readers threatened to cancel their subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tom-cotton-1200x800-1.jpg\"><\/a> Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) attends a press conference in Washington on July 1, 2020. (Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>The newspaper issued <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcatracy\/status\/1268667488356704256\/photo\/1\">a statement<\/a> on June 4, 2020, vowing to \u201cexpand our fact-checking operation\u201d and reduce the number of opinion pieces. To explain how Cotton\u2019s piece came to be published, they blamed a \u201crushed editorial process\u201d for an op-ed that \u201cdid not meet our standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These vocal millennials are the same ones that orchestrate woke mobs in colleges to shut down conservative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat-run, legacy mainstream media outlets are increasingly beholden to younger radical progressives, according to journalist, author, and political commentator Amber Athey. \u201cThey thought the woke millennials were on their side \u2026 [and] quickly learned that \u2018wokeism\u2019 does not accept anything but 100 percent fealty,\u201d said Athey during an interview with Epoch TV\u2019s \u201cAmerican Thought Leaders.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":415,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/415"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}