[dirtboy]

They still don't get it, and probably (and hopefully) never will.

[WayneS]

...they were smug, insular, often narrow-minded, and invariably convinced of their own rightness.

Right. Just like today.

[1Old Pro]

The truth is that coverage of American politics, and the capital that revolves around it, is in many ways much better now than ever before—faster, sharper, and far more sophisticated.

It's only better if you rate it on the percentage of anti-GOP or anti-Trump stories as related to ANYTHING that could be construed as "positive".

[headstamp 2]

[Journalism has never been better, thanks to these last few decades of disruption.]

LOL

[dirtboy]

Rationalizing their failure by blaming those dumb voters:

Tellingly, a few days after the election, the Oxford Dictionaries announced that “post-truth” had been chosen as the 2016 word of the year, defining it as a condition “in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”

[dirtboy]

Rationalizing their failure by blaming those dumb voters:

Tellingly, a few days after the election, the Oxford Dictionaries announced that “post-truth” had been chosen as the 2016 word of the year, defining it as a condition “in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”

[WayneS]

Even fact-checking perhaps the most untruthful candidate of our lifetime didn’t work...

What a ridiculous statement. Very seldom, if ever, did anyone from the leftist media fact check Hillary Clinton.

[MNJohnnie]

So the primary purveyor of Fake News are whining because most Americans now know they are fake new.

So much winning...

[Oratam]

The media scandal of 2016 isn’t so much about what reporters failed to tell the American public; it’s about what they did report on, and the fact that it didn’t seem to matter.

Talk about smug, insular, narrow-minded, and invariably convinced of her own rightness. Sheesh.

[WayneS]

I like the fact that the writer is pretty much openly admitting that she and her cohorts were not trying to assure fair and balanced coverage of the candidates, but were instead trying to keep Donald Trump from being elected.

[BenLurkin]

Post truth America has been around since 1993.

Elections have come and come since then.

[PGalt]

Journalism has never been better...

FAKE news ALERT!

Propaganda has never been more putrid/polarizing.

[billyboy15]

“Today’s beat reporters on Capitol Hill are as a rule doing a far better job than I did”

LOL, talk about a self indictment!

[Olog-hai]

I don’t expect anything better from the Pollutico editor. Also former EIC of Foreign Policy ragazine.

[Leep]

What has changed?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Beat reporters on Capitol Hill may indeed do a good job.

It’s the fact that their editors will only approve that which fits their political narrative that’s the problem.

[No_More_Harkin]

so I thought perhaps there was some truth to this article. News can now be easily broadcast live through a simple smart phone. So efficiency and timeliness has improved greatly in 20 years.

But then I read the tired old line: “Stephen Bannon, until recently the executive chairman of Breitbart—a right-wing fringe website with a penchant for conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic tropes”

Can’t pen a piece without the anti-Trump slurs.