From the moment Donald Trump’s victory was apparent, much of the right-wing media began labeling the traditional mainstream media the biggest loser of the election. The funny thing is, a lot of mainstream media agrees.
Since the election, the progressive mainstream media has spent a lot of time flagellating itself for not offering a stronger counter argument to Trump, while the right wing media rails against the mainstream media for flagellating Trump. But in an election in which Trump grew his voters in every demographic and region, it’s pretty hard to tease out any data that shows any media effect at all. And you don’t need a poll or a pile of data to measure the most important journalistic fail of the election: the mainstream media missed one of the biggest political stories of our time, the swing rightward of the American electorate.
Read more at TIME Magazine.