HOW DONALD TRUMP IS EXPOSING MEDIA’S DIVERSITY PROBLEM:

Trump’s rise has exposed a gap between the views many Americans hold, and those that are commonly aired in the media. Williams says, “[Trump] is forcing America to realize that there is a large group of Americans who are skeptical of the media, of policy experts, who believe that blunt criticism and simple policies (oftentimes targeted towards marginalizing less powerful groups) would be better for America. And for the moment, those people love Trump for legitimizing their views.”

Setting aside the portentous virtue-signalling that runs throughout the article, it’s sort of amusing for the Atlantic to discover the quantum of an aura of a penumbra of how media bias angers so many readers — a decade after jettisoning Mark Steyn’s monthly column for the Faustian bargain of leftwing blogger Andrew Sullivan and his blog’s Web traffic, only to see Sullivan morph into the World’s Most Legendary Uterus Detective and immediately become, as Jonathan Last described the publication in September of 2008, “a laughingstock.” Their ill-conceived dalliance with Scientology in early 2013 didn’t help matters.