Παρά πολύ καλό άρθρο από τη Washington Post η οποία ήταν η μοναδική εφημερίδα που κράτησε κάποιες ισορροπίες και δεν ...ξεμπουρδελεύτηκε τελείως όπως....
όλα τα υπόλοιπα συστημικά ΜΜΕ του πλανήτη, συμπεριλαμβανομένων και ελληνικών, τα οποία υποστήριζαν με θρησκευτικό φανατισμό τη Χίλαρι Κλίντον.
To put it bluntly, the media missed the story. In the end, a huge number of American voters wanted something different. And although these voters shouted and screamed it, most journalists just weren’t listening. They didn’t get it.
They didn’t get that the huge, enthusiastic crowds at Donald Trump’s rallies would really translate into that many votes. They couldn’t believe that the America they knew could embrace someone who mocked a disabled man, bragged about sexually assaulting women, and spouted misogyny, racism and anti-Semitism.
It would be too horrible. So, therefore, according to some kind of magical thinking, it couldn’t happen.
(And at this writing, we don’t know for sure that it has happened; the election hadn’t yet been called.)
Journalists — college-educated, urban and, for the most part, liberal — are more likely than ever before to live and work in New York City and Washington, D.C., or on the West Coast. And although we touched down in the big red states for a few days, or interviewed some coal miners or unemployed autoworkers in the Rust Belt, we didn’t take them seriously. Or not seriously enough.
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Two men yelled at one another about immigration as supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump chant in Times Square on election night. (Twitter/Tom Steinfort)
And Trump — who called journalists scum and corrupt — alienated us so much that we couldn’t see what was before our eyes. We just kept checking our favorite prognosticating sites, and feeling reassured, even though everyone knows that poll results are not votes.
After all, you never know who’ll show up to vote, especially when votes are being suppressed as never before. And even the most Clinton-leaning prognosticators allowed for some chance of a Trump win.
But no one seemed to believe it in their bones. We would have President Clinton, went the journalistic conventional wisdom, and although she would be flawed, she would be a known quantity. There was a kind of comfort there.
Make no mistake. This is an epic fail. And although eating crow is never appealing, we’ll be digesting feathers and beaks in the next weeks and months — and maybe years.
The strange thing, of course, is that the media helped to give Trump his chance.
