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The unbearable smugness of the press

The audience for our glib analysis and contempt for much of the electorate, it turned out, was rather limited. This was particularly true when it came to voters, the ones who turned out by the millions to deliver not only a rebuke to the political system but also the people who cover it. Trump knew what he was doing when he invited his crowds to jeer and hiss the reporters covering him. They hate us, and have for some time.

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Trump’s US election: Writing was clearly on the wall for all readers here to see — Caroline Overington, The Australian

It’s sortakinda like pulling out in your family sedan ainto the path of a monster B triple and saying “..Gee, I didn’t see that coming..”

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those that get what’s going on and those that don’t.

This result was blindingly obvious except to those who couldn’t see past Trumps straight talk (which people say they want in a politician) and his character flaws but at the same time were quite prepared to be blinded by the Clinton crimes, character flaws, duplicity and double speak. (telling a Wall Street function that she had a public position and a private position on issues.) To them it was a simple and shallow, blue team vs red team political theatre fixture.

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The Mainstream Media’s Big Disconnect: Why They Don’t Get Middle America — Neil Gabler

From April this year — The top journalists covering the elections are out of touch. No wonder they’re missing this year’s big stories — When you put their geographical proximity together with their class solidarity, it is entirely likely that MSM reporters will huddle, the way most geographic and economic cohorts do. They are more likely to see the same things, attend the same parties and events, mingle with the same people, draw on the same sources and send their children to the same schools, which adds up to their seeing the world in similar ways and reporting the same stories in the same ways. In short, the MSM is not only an elite, it is a kind of economic and cultural clique. And that clique is not us.

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