From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone. This is not the morning after. It's too late now to console half the nation about the decision the other half made.

Also, there's no point this week in excoriating the press yet again for its

many lapses this election season. Because this week, the media have been very busy excoriating

themselves. Not for failing to say early enough and loud enough that the aspiring emperor

had no clothes, but for failing to project last year's punchline

as this year's president-elect.

So, as the duly appointed spokesperson for the entire American media,

all I can say is, oops.

We're all sitting here sort of silence in shock.

Polsters missed it, correspondence missed it.

We all missed the biggest political story of our lifetime.

And I think we all thought it couldn't happen.

It was an upset, all right, in all senses of the word,

due to the fact that the electorate was whiter, older, more rural, and far angrier at the powers that be than pollsters and pundits had anticipated.

That much is clear.

What's a little less clear is why those voters came out for Trump in districts that had previously polled Democratic.

And in that, the results served as a kind of roar shock test for talking heads.

Because when seeking answers, all of us, even journalists and pundits, tend to start searching

in territory we already know, like racism.

This was a white lash against a changing country. It was a white lash against a changing country.

It was a white lash against a black president in part.

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