On self-scrutiny...............

"The election of Donald Trump can be said to have demolished the intellectual foundation of the news business.  The pretense of objectivity had been abandoned for a higher cause.   The claim to furnish 'all the news that's fit to print' was now refuted by the failure to grasp the shape and outcome of the contest.  No one who followed the news understood the forces at play.  None guessed what was coming.  Continued consumption of the news seemed to lack any justification, other than amusement or habit.

"Dazed and demoralized, people in the media sought haphazardly to explain the disaster.  They were not good at the game:  a profession that is literally in broadcast mode shouldn't be expected to excel at self-scrutiny."

-Martin Gurri,  The Revolt Of The Public