THE HAND-WRINGING has been going on for weeks: How did the media miss the biggest political story of our lifetimes, the revolt of the white working class that ushered in the Age of Trump?
Here’s why: We just don’t care about the working class.
We in the national news media, whatever the griminess of our origins, inhabit a different stratum of society, and it colors our coverage. CONT.
Gary Weiss, Columbia Journalism Review