“…conservatives with big microphones taught their listeners not to believe what is reported in the mainstream media…”

…while conservatives with big microphones taught their listeners not to believe what is reported in the mainstream media (and especially the elite press in New York and Washington) they themselves still relied on those sources as their baseline reality— minus the liberal “spin,” of course. They weren’t willing to adopt the information diet they recommended for others. This act of bad faith lies behind the complaints of someone like Sykes, who is now saying: Lord, what have we done?

Jay Rosen, “A miss bigger than a missed story: my final reflections on Trump and the press in 2016”, PressThink (6 November 2016) [http://pressthink.org/2016/11/miss-bigger-missed-story-final-reflections-trump-press-2016/]