It is the end of a long week in the news business but three days after the election, there are a lot questions being asked of those in the national news business.
How did the news media not see what was coming? We know many of the pollsters didn’t either.
A quote from a former news executive with decades of experience may have an answer.
The veteran news exec told CNN's Reliable Sources that “too much of the mainstream media missed the mood of America”…suggesting that many of the national media’s decision makers live in a bubble…and that “it all contributes to what they see and don’t see about America.”
As the longtime news executive put it again in the report by Reliable Sources, “We all need to recognize that unconscious bias has an impact, when your values and status in life is so different than the majority of Americans."
As a writer for the Atlantic put it in a column, “Voters Wanted Lower Prices at Any Cost.”
Guess it’s maybe all a reminder that, as in every day life itself, sometimes the most complicated things can be more simple to explain than they appear.
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