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The Failure Of The Media's Election Coverage
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The election of Donald Trump as the president came as a shock to many journalists and their consumers. Where did the media go wrong?
Joshua Benton of the Nieman Journalism Lab calls it, "a marker of how bad a job we did," and NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik's latest column is headlined "Trump Won. The Media Lost. What Next?" Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) speaks with Here & Now's Robin Young about the news media's role in the election.
This segment aired on November 10, 2016.