{"id":2373231,"date":"2024-11-25T12:49:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T17:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elite-media-concede-they-are-out-of-touch-beg-forgiveness-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T12:50:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T17:50:27","slug":"elite-media-concede-they-are-out-of-touch-beg-forgiveness-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elite-media-concede-they-are-out-of-touch-beg-forgiveness-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Elite\u2019 media concede they are out of touch, beg forgiveness &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felite-media-concede-they-are-out-of-touch-beg-forgiveness-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2373231&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses how major media\u200c outlets\u200c such as the Washington Post,\u200b CNN, and Politico have acknowledged their failure to accurately cover the 2024 election, particularly in their \u2062predictions that \u2062Vice President Kamala Harris would defeat President-elect Donald Trump. Following the election, these media organizations are seeking to regain \u200dthe trust of their audience, who they \u200cfeel misled. Reporters like Eugene Daniels and Eugene Robinson admitted that \u2064their\u200b coverage \u2063was influenced by groupthink and\u200b lacked diversity in \u2063perspectives, resulting in a disconnect \u200dwith Trump\u200b supporters. The discussions highlighted a realization among\u200b journalists\u200b that they need to listen to a broader \u200brange of voices to serve their audience\u2062 better. This introspection came \u2062during \u2064postelection\u200b events\u200d at Harvard, where reporters recognized that their elite backgrounds contributed to a narrow viewpoint that failed to resonate with many voters.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">&lsquo;Elite&rsquo; media concede they are out of touch, beg forgiveness<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1892543\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>America&rsquo;s self-described &ldquo;elite&rdquo; media are begging for forgiveness from readers and viewers they deceived during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3240385\/bill-clinton-unsurprised-2024-election-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">2024 election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Smug and pompous before the election in predicting that Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Kamala Harris\">Kamala Harris<\/a> would beat President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>, reporters from outlets including the <em>Washington Post,<\/em> CNN, and <em>Politico <\/em>are seeking to stanch the exodus of their audience before it leads to layoffs or even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/business\/3240702\/joe-rogan-don-jr-elon-musk-joke-msnbc-takeover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">bankruptcy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The world feels upended,&rdquo; Politico Playbook co-author and White House correspondent Eugene Daniels said, conceding that the media blew the election, especially in writing off Trump supporters.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You know, everyone that voted for Donald Trump is not someone that was like, &lsquo;You know what? I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/were-willing-to-lay-our-lives-down-inside-the-effort-to-save-babies-at-planned-parenthoods-front-doors\/\" title=\"\u2018We\u2019re Willing To Lay Our Lives Down\u2019: Inside The Effort To Save Babies At Planned Parenthood\u2019s Front Doors\">hate black people<\/a>. I hate brown people.&rsquo; And the idea that you would just, and this is something that ends up happening in D.C. a lot, is like, &lsquo;Well, that&rsquo;s why it&rsquo;s like &mdash;&rsquo; But it&rsquo;s like, no, there may be something else there. And that lack of imagination is, I think, where we have failed as an industry to serve the people who we&rsquo;re trying to get to come back. And the only way to do that is to, like, you know, come back hat in hand and be like, &lsquo;Please, please, we&rsquo;ll listen to you this time,&rsquo;&rdquo; added Daniels, the <a href=\"https:\/\/whca.press\/about\/officers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">president<\/a> of the White House Correspondents&rsquo; Association.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Media and the Next Trump Presidency\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6I4_m7ysgW4?start=1701&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Washington Post<\/em> columnist Eugene Robinson, when asked what he missed in his coverage, said with laughter, &ldquo;I missed the result. I got that wrong.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>And CNN&rsquo;s Abby Phillip said the election showed that reporters were writing for themselves. &ldquo;I think that I have observed that elites increasingly talk only to each other and come to believe that, because there is consensus among them, that that consensus is shared broadly,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CNN&rsquo;s Abby Phillip\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eKTJ5Mc9cHk?start=3325&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The reporters were among several who spoke at postelection events last week at Harvard University&rsquo;s Kennedy School Institute of Politics. While there were no apologies for the dead-wrong coverage, there was a consensus that the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">political press play &#038;ldquo<\/a>;groupthink,&rdquo; or what used to be called pack journalism.<\/p>\n<p>While the makeup of the media is unlikely to change after the election despite the industry hand-wringing, the reporters blamed a lack of intellectual diversity and backgrounds in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lori-lightfoot-defends-giving-interviews-only-to-black-and-brown-journalists-calls-press-overwhelmingly-white\/\" title=\"Lori Lightfoot Defends Giving Interviews Only To \u2018Black And Brown\u2019 Journalists, Calls Press \u2018Overwhelmingly White\u2019\">political press corps<\/a> for pushing the anti-Trump, pro-Harris storyline.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson told of how newsrooms used to be full of &ldquo;working-class&rdquo; reporters, many without college degrees.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But now, you know, the <em>Washington Post <\/em>is, you come in, and there&rsquo;s a whole bunch of really smart, you know, educated, beautifully educated people who, by and large, sort of grew up in the same kinds of neighborhoods and went to the same, you know, elite universities and got really good grades, and so, yeah, there&rsquo;s a kind of groupthink,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s an internal diversity that I think we have lost,&rdquo; added Robinson, a regular on MSNBC&rsquo;s <em>Morning Joe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Phillip told her student audience that Democrats suffer from elitism and that the Republicans are now more representative of America.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEE THE LATEST POLITICAL NEWS AND BUZZ FROM WASHINGTON SECRETS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We as a society need to find better ways to uplift divergent voices. Otherwise, we will be victims of groupthink. And there is an activist class. I think this is particularly acute in the Democratic Party right now. There is an activist class in the Democratic Party that is multiracial, multiethnic. It is diverse. But it&rsquo;s an activist class, and so because of that, they&rsquo;re not able to see outside of that. And Republicans had the same problem before Trump, the Heritage Foundations of the world, et cetera, right? They had the same issue, fundamental issue, but Trump kind of broke them out of it. Democrats are in that place now where they have to break out of it. And I think it is a real problem,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Politico&rsquo;s<\/em> Daniels went so far as to admit, &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t know everything.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1892543\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1892543\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Elite\u2019 media admit disconnect, seek forgiveness from audience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2647,"featured_media":2373232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Election-2024-Media-Polls-bb234.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[45670,33295,32693],"class_list":["post-2373231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-elite-media","tag-media-criticism","tag-out-of-touch"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Election-2024-Media-Polls-bb234.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2373231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373235,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373231\/revisions\/2373235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2373232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}