With greater ideological diversity,
perhaps we would have done a better job investigating that “basket of
deplorables” Clinton so easily disparaged, and learned more about the
economic conditions — student-loan debt, under-paying jobs, inability to
buy homes — that impacted some of the college-educated White voters who
cast their votes from Trump.
Having reporters and editors at the table who recognized reluctance among Black voters when the hashtag #GirlIGuessImWithHer
began to trend should have signaled a need to question polls that
indicated the African-American voting bloc might not be a sure thing for
the Clinton campaign — long before the early voting returns were in.
-- Meredith D. Clark, "Why did newsrooms miss the Trump wave? Lack of diversity played a huge part" (POYNTER).