Still, a visitor from outer space who read these dozens of "think pieces" by journalists on journalism would be baffled at what the actual problem is, beyond the fact that a man named Donald Trump was elected president of the United States earlier this month. Apparently, the media didn't do enough investigative reporting about this Trump fellow -- his myriad conflicts of interest, his skeazy advisers, his history of grifting, etc., etc. -- and was inadequate to the task of warning American citizens that a dangerous, and dangerously unprepared man, with an authoritarian bent was about to capture the White House. Also, the nation's free press didn't send reporters into the rural areas where Trump supporters live and didn't reflect the views, or give an editorial voice, to the millions of citizens who voted for him. In other words, newspapers, TV and other outlets failed because they didn't give a powerful enough voice to the masses. As they were electing a man who will destroy 240 years of U.S. democracy. You don't have to be from Mars to see a contradiction here.