“The 63 million people who voted for Donald Trump clearly didn’t see things the same way as the reporters for The New York Times and The Washington Post and other similar news organizations did,” he said.

Mr. Goodwin is a Trump supporter who identifies himself as a conservative Democrat. He has been highly critical of news coverage of Mr. Trump, especially that of this newspaper — and of a column by yours truly in August about journalism’s role in the Trump era — which he viewed as woefully unfair. We agreed to disagree on that score. But he’s in plentiful company among Mr. Trump’s voters, who, along with Mr. Trump, have promoted the election result as a castigation of all the mainstream news coverage of the campaign.

Of course, where one stands on press bias so often depends on where one sits politically. Talk with a Clinton aide and you’ll inevitably hear that unfair news coverage was a big reason for her loss.

“Her coverage was out of context and disproportionately negative,” Jennifer Palmieri, the senior Clinton strategist, told me. “The email coverage was the original sin,” she said, arguing that the reporting on the fact that she used a private email server was so “completely out of proportion” that it unfairly became something nefarious in the minds of voters who initially didn’t see it as a big deal.

In her view, the news media should have made it clear that Mr. Trump’s failings were different — and in her view far worse — from any of Mrs. Clinton’s, which presumably would have contributed to a different outcome.

As I wrote in my very first Mediator column in March, it is not the mainstream, non-opinion news media’s job to determine outcomes. That’s up to the voters. Nor should the news media measure itself against any one campaign’s definition of fairness. It is political journalism’s job to be true to the facts in a way that helps voters envision what the candidates will be like in the nation’s highest office.

And judging by the past couple of weeks, the coverage seems to have succeeded in that regard.

If you read or viewed reports about Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia and his compliments of Mr. Putin, then his choice of Rex Tillerson for secretary of state — a man whom Mr. Putin considers a friend of Russia — should not have been a surprise. If you read the coverage questioning whether Mr. Trump would upend the United States’ approach to nuclear weapons, his suggestions last week that he might reverse decades of United States nuclear weapons policy did not come out of left field. I could go on.