"Trump & his mob succeeded in getting this far because we, the media failed you."

[kpete]

"Too many in the media bottled it. At some point we have to own this. Donald Trump and his mob succeeded in getting this far because we, the media, failed. We failed you."

I have been waiting four long years to say this. It's important.

"Many of us in the media have rightly been rightly slamming Republicans..for enabling the worst excesses of Trump. What we haven't done is taken a long hard look at ourselves, our own role in enabling him."

"The sad reality is that a lot of black and brown voices in the media...we were calling out Trump long before others...and without much support from our peers...the U.S. media has been too white, for too long."

"If you work in the media and only now is the moment you're truly shocked by Trump or by Trump supporters, only now is the moment you think he has gone too far, you have to ask yourself: Why? Why did you turn a blind eye to the threat for so long?"

My mini-rant on the #mediafail of the Trump era:

Pls watch/share:

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[gratuitous]

1. Let's see what happens

Does this signal a new direction for the media? Or is raising the question once sufficient?

[pecosbob]

2. Anything can happen

I never in my life thought I would see goobers running around the Capitol Building whacking cops with rebel flags.

It's all like a bad TV movie made from a worse Tom Clancy novel. I'd say it's more than likely their collective heads will remain up their collective asses.

[Duppers]

3. Truth! ☝

[greenjar_01]

4. I love that he used "bottled it," but most Americans don't know what that means

Unless they're supporters of Tottenham Hotspur.