To the Editor:

Re “What I Got Wrong About Donald Trump,” by Nate Cohn (The Upshot, May 5):

I am tired of the repeated mea culpas and breast-beating on the part of journalists in general, and The Times in particular, regarding the unlikely rise of Donald Trump. It is not that the pundits guessed wrong about the outcomes of various primary contests.

The real deficiency of journalists has been that (1) they failed to take Mr. Trump’s candidacy seriously enough to dig for the truth underlying his most flamboyant statements; and (2) they gave Mr. Trump virtually unlimited access to the print and TV platforms that they control.

A case in point is the May 6 “news” article about Mr. Trump eating a taco (“Outreach to Hispanics: Taco Bowls”). Oh, please, do your jobs as journalists. In short, you have not served the American people and their government well.

ROBERT N. ROSS

Cambridge, Mass.

To the Editor:

Here’s my upshot. Here’s what should have been on Nate Cohn’s list of what he and others got wrong:

For entirely too long working-class people have been dismissed as not smart enough, their passion rooted in racism, love of guns, white male dominance or the need for a beer. As with most people in the United States, for them it really boils down to “it’s the economy, stupid.”