Election Gives Media Chance to Change Course

As a result of not doing honest reporting, journalists didn’t understand what was going on in this election. A devotion to truth requires that journalists put aside favored narratives and show tolerance for those who think differently.

The New York Times building in New York in August 2015. MikeDotta/Shutterstock

On election night, our national press corps had their heads handed to them, which, in the long run, may be a good thing.

The problem is not that so many of our scribblers and talking heads were wrong. The problem is that they were self-deluded.