News Media Yet Again Misreads America’s Complex Pulse – The New York Times

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A ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’ Lesson for the Digital Age

For not the first time this year, those analyzing this election missed what was happening all around them — and it was the story of a lifetime.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/business/media/media-trump-clinton.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

All the dazzling technology, the big data and the sophisticated modeling that American newsrooms bring to the fundamentally human endeavor of presidential politics could not save American journalism from yet again being behind the story, behind the rest of the country.