Photograph of the briefing room on Feb. 7, 2017 by Doug Mills/The New York Times
Will Rahn, CBS: The unbearable smugness of the press
The mood in the Washington press corps is bleak, and deservedly so.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that, with a few exceptions, we were all tacitly or explicitly #WithHer, which has led to a certain anguish in the face of Donald Trump’s victory. More than that and more importantly, we also missed the story, after having spent months mocking the people who had a better sense of what was going on.
This is all symptomatic of modern journalism’s great moral and intellectual failing: its unbearable smugness. Had Hillary Clinton won, there’d be a winking “we did it” feeling in the press, a sense that we were brave and called Trump a liar and saved the republic.
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WNU Editor: The above commentary by Will Rahn is spot on .... but here is an easy prediction .... none of his media colleagues are going to take his recommendations seriously.
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