“Like everybody else, we got it wrong,” Tony Romando, chief executive of Topix Media, told the New York Post. The massive failure wasn’t just about a malfunction in polling. Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr admitted in a personal note to subscribers that the paper had failed to appreciate Donald Trump’s appeal. Social media platforms and YouTube will lead you to all the misinformation you need to make those delusions seem real. We have to stop writing these know-it-all, 140-character sermons on social media and admit that, as a class, journalists have a shamefully limited understanding of the country we cover.”

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 23, 2016 18:10 UTC