The Media Needs a Reinvention Not Just a Wake-Up Call After Trump’s Surprise Win

The media can’t just pivot into the next cycle of looking around the room and asking “what just happened?” as if it had nothing to do with it

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Rachel Maddow, Anderson Cooper, Lawrence O'Donnell and Abby Phillip (MSNBC/CNN)

If you’re like me, you haven’t turned on the news since last Tuesday when Donald Trump won the election. Personally, I can’t bear to listen to another minute of wisdom from Joy Reid, my friend Lawrence O’Donnell or the admirable Rachel Maddow. I can’t hear Anderson Cooper, or Abby Phillip. Can’t abide getting the lowdown on NPR or from the New York Times’ Daily Michael Barbaro. Or “The View” ladies. 

I can’t do it. 

I’m not saying I’ll never watch or listen again. But – am I alone here? – my entire body recoils from listening to more claptrap from the same claptrapping apparatus. 

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