At the end of the night, many voters, americans wanted something different. And although you have said loud and clear, most of the journalists were not paying attention. Passed them to the side. They did not understand that the large crowds and enthusiasts in the rallies of Donald Trump would translate into votes. Not wanted to believe that the United States that knew they would accept someone who came with a man poor, who boasted of sexually assaulting women, who wove comments misóginos, racist and anti-semitic.
it Would be too bad. As such, and using the power of the imagination, could not happen. Currently, it is more likely than ever that the journalists – people with a degree, cosmopolitan and, in their majority, the liberals – work and live in New York, Washington, D. C., or on the West coast. And, while we state in the main states the Republicans during a few days, or that we have interviewed some of the coal miners or workers in the automobile industry the unemployed in the states of "ring of rust", not the ones we took seriously. Or seriously enough.
And Donald Trump – they called the journalists of scum and corrupt – has alienated us to the point we can’t see what was in front of us. We continued to look for our sites favorite, feeling the security of knowing that the results of polls do not equate to votes. After all, you never know who votes, especially when the suppression of votes is more relevant than ever. And even the analysts with the biggest trends Democrats gave it some margin to win the Donald Trump. Our president would be Hillary Clinton, according to the traditional wisdom of journalism. She would have their faults but would you know what to count. There was a sort of comfort in this narrative.
let us Not be deceived. We are faced with an entire defeat. And while self-pity is not very attractive, let’s face it in the next few weeks and months, perhaps years. Strange thing is that the media have helped Donald Trump. Will the journalists created Donald Trump? Of course not, because it does not have this power. But helped him a lot, giving you a lot of attention, without filter, for months until primary elections, Republican. And emphasis, in exaggerated form, to all developments in the case of e-mails from Hillary Clinton, including the statements of James Comey, the director of the FBI.
I am Not an admirer of Peter Thiel, the billionaire who closed the doors to Gawker, funding the legal process of Hulk Hogan, the wrestler of wrestling professional. In fact, I think that it is terrible. But when he spoke recently at the National Press Club, said something that I found to be quite insightful about Donald Trump. "The average face always Donald Trump literally. Never take it seriously," said Thiel. The journalists wanted to know exactly how he deportaria all illegal immigrants or as would end up with the ISIS. We wanted details.
But many of the electorate think the opposite way: they see Donald Trump in a serious way, and not literal. They know, ” said Thiel, that Donald Trump does not have a plan to build a wall. "What they hear is, Let’s have an immigration policy more healthy. > > > > " apparently, Donald Trump has captured the anger that americans felt about issues such as trade and immigration.
And although many journalists have published stories about the frustration and sense of deprivation of the north-americans, not the viewed our seriously enough. We, journalists, we try seeing ourselves as cynical or ruthless, but also we can be idealistic and naive.
we Wanted to believe in a country where decency and civility still mattered and where someone so rude, spiteful and intemperado could not be elected – because the United States would be better than this.
I Can blame the journalists for many things, but this does not.
Unique PUBLIC/the Washington Post
Translation of Susana Valdez and Francisco Ferreira
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