The coverage of the president ial election has been highly controversial. You can call in with your thoughts on how the media has done. Democrats your number is 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. 2027488002. Share your thoughts on social media. We are on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Many news outlets were consistently wrong in the prediction of who would win the president ial election and that erode american state and the Mainstream Media, a poll done in september before the election, Americans Trust in mass media sinks to a is the headline for this poll. 1997, 53 of americans said they had a great deal or fair amount of trust in the mass media. That number is down to 32 of americans who have either a great deal of faith or a fair amount of faith in the mess media. That is in 2016. Andwitter, the founder president of the Media Research center and also publisher of news busters and cns news. Com put out this statement he said this is why the pundits got it wrong, they believe the media and their spin, not just on the coronation of Hillary Clinton but on americas repudiation of donald trump. He saw the trouble voters as the Clinton Campaign saw them, a basket of deplorables, the program hillary press treated Donald Trumps followers with contempt while the leftwing media was giving comfort to Hillary Clinton covering up her sandals when they could and spinning them in her favor when they couldnt. Newspaper, the tv columnist joe concha wrote an article that said the trumpet victory spells the end of traditional media influence. The most stunning night and political history, if it taught us anything about traditional medias coverage of the election which spans 600 days, it is this, it does not have the influence it thinks it does, and dismissing public sentiment when it comes to the entire premise s outsidertrump campaign, the media proves it is not what it used to be in the eyes of the public. The numbers are horrified, the media Approval Rating is 19 according to nbc news and the wall street journal. Americans with high confidence in the media is just 6 and a Suffolk University usa today poll question, who do you think the media including major newspapers and tv stations would like to see elected president , Hillary Clinton or donald trump, 75. 9 of the people said the media believes that they believe the media wanted clinton to be the president while just 7. 9 said donald trump cleared the New York Timess media columnist wrote this in an article about the role of the media he said the problem that surfaced on tuesday night was much bigger than pulling, clear that something was fundamentally broken in journalism that was unable to keep up with the antiestablishment mood that is turning the world upside down. Politics is not just about numbers. Capture the human condition that is the blood of american politics and not the sole function of political reporting to tell you who will win or lose, the horse race as too often overshadowed everything else. And notably, it colors other reporting as well. To you this morning do you think the traditional media has lost his influence . Our first color comes from on the, texas, dee democratic line, good morning. Caller good morning. I believe it is a human error because when i was watching it and everything, i also recorded it to make sure i was seeing the right thing. On some of the swing states, it was human error because when anchors like wolf on cnn, when was tooe saying it close to win, they show clinton ahead of florida, North Carolina, and virginia. They went back and forth and then they said, why they had not called them for her . They let it sit there for a good hour. As soon as it went to mr. Trump, they called it, i think it was human error when they should have called it they did not call it. Mr. Brian williams did the same thing on nbc. And when he said it, they gave it to mr. Trump and he said it was just only five electoral votes so we are not going to worry about it. They should have corrected it. Error,more of a human when they should have called it they did not call it. Post, ialled washington called New York Times, i am in houston and i got on the phone and call these places and found out that i was not the only one who was making these complaints because New York Times told me that they had over i do not know how many people have called in with the same complaint. What will you do about it . , has one quick question this election cycle changed the , changed whichv newspapers or publications you read or change the way you consume media . Caller it changed a lot because i do not trust what they say or do anymore. For me, looking at it with my naturalize and hearing it with my years, if you can make a human error like this, it makes me think whatever you put in the paper, i do not believe it anymore. Host lets turn to pennsylvania, michael is on the republican line. What do you think . Caller good morning, thank you for cspan and the question because it is a huge question. I have always thought that the media has been very slanted toward a liberal agenda but i have never seen it so badly as this election. They were so much in the tank for Hillary Clinton and so opposed to donald trump. If you look at some of these riots going on now, i think it is the fault of the media and they have not changed one thing, they are still talking about the same thing as if this election were stolen, as if the American People did not speak loudly against this president s agenda. And against this popularity of this president. They talked about the president and his popularity and how popular he is, that is as flawed as these polls were. Host that is michael from pennsylvania. Our question has traditional media lost it implements . Implements . Influence . Article wewrote the read a few minutes ago. Good morning. Guest good morning and thank you for having me. Host why do you believe the media lost its influence, was a human error or something more fundamental going on . Fundamental, it love numbers and when it comes to the media i have more to play with a crispy people are doing polls and analyzing it and that gives me a lot to play with. Here are three numbers, all you need to know as why i have come to the conclusion that traditional media has a fraction of the influence it once did, 57, that represents the number of major newspapers that endorsed Hillary Clinton including many in michigan, pennsylvania, florida. Donald trump got two newspaper endorsements. Endorsements 57 get Hillary Clinton, a concession speech. People stop listening to the traditional media a long time ago because they do not trust the messenger. Host why is that . Because they feel the media is not reflecting their values or beliefs and their reality they are seeing in their communities and neighborhoods . Guest that is a great question, the way you phrased that. We look at from voters come in the rust belt states trump states,any rust belt Hillary Clinton called some deplorables and that was a big turning point, you can demonize the opponent as much as you want, whats you go after voters, that is a problem. Media perspective, much of the media is in washington and new york, the national , they seem toafar simply dismiss trump voters the way mrs. Clinton did. They did not go into those states on a National Level and speak to the folks and really find out where the pain points are, your wages are down, you cannot find a job you like or you cannot find one at all. They did not get the pain. When the Election Results came across, everybody acted so surprised. There was one person that stands out, mark halperin, the bloomberg andn msnbc often and does a documentary called the circus where he follows the candidates and speaks to the voters as much as well and he was optimistic about trump and ridiculed for it but he said there is something going on that it do not think you are getting as far as the anger in this country and the anxiety. I see donald trump having a much thanr chance of winning most people do and he was right because he got into the trenches for most other folks said that in new york and washington and took shots at trumps supporters and dismiss them. Has traditional media lost its influence . We have seen a donald trump use twitter in a new way to engage his followers and his supporters. Have there been alternative types of media that have become more influential than the traditional media in this campaign and election cycle . Guest absolutely, the unfiltered variety and that primarily is twitter which donald trump used often to my for happy time, i cannot believe you just wrote that. Half the time come i cannot believe he just wrote that you there is an authenticity to that, you can fact check claims he made but he always came across as an everyday guide even though he is a billionaire. Hasink that social media risen during this election as a way for candidates to go directly to the voters and avoid having to go through the press. Donald trump did not hold a press conference and to well over 100 days leading up to the election. At one point, mrs. Clinton went from before the primaries until after she was nominated before she david press conference. Before she gave a press conference. Their ownates have megaphone and do not need to go through the media. Host that is joe concha, the media writer for the hill newspaper, thank you for being here. Guest thank you for having me. Host spring texas, independent line, alan. I do think that traditional media is perhaps losing some influence. I do not agree that they have lost the influence. , ithis most recent election think the traditional media played a large role in getting mr. Trump elected. That may not have been their intention but they gave him the coverage and the exposure required, and the free access to media that was required for him to get elected. They put him out there and presented him to the people. The people did not necessarily vote the way they asked him to. The majority of the people did but he did win the Electoral College. You can see the beauty influence in the way that completely shut out any alternative ideas. The democratic and republican our have a duopoly on almost a monopoly on our political system, they shut out in the other candidates, candidates on the ballot who are on sufficient balance to win the president ial election. Shut them outy from the president ial debates and go along with the president ial commission. Which is the Democratic Party and the Republican Party in their own rules that they played by. You can see how the media had a tremendous influence in completely shutting out any alternative ideas to what the two parties were presenting to the people. The ideas were very limited and progressived of any thinking of any kind. The thinking that is required to move this country and progress this country forward. Had tremendous influence and completely shut out the other parties. Host new york, democratic line, good morning. Caller hello . Host you are on the air. Caller i agree with what the last person said about the media , it gave a lot of airtime, the liberal media to donald trump because the media is too consumed with entertainment now. The media is so important to our political process. Especially because we have a country now of less critical think i think the Education System is created has created less Critical Thinking and so the media is very important to our political process, even from the time of the founding. I am thinking of the pamphlets circulated by the different fathers, benjamin franklin, etc. The point is that i think this is a good time for the media to take a critical look at itself. Because it is too consumed with entertaining. Dave from armstrong creek, wisconsin, independent line. Go ahead. Caller i agree with both of the last dollars. What i would call the Corporate Media had a lot to do with what went on. It is commercially driven. That they werebs doing it for the ratings and the donald trump was maybe not good for the country but he was great for the ratings. Host where do you go to get your information . Caller i do watch a lot of cspan. I watch washington journal in the morning. , freeh independent media speech tv, link tv. I get good stuff from them. The immediate wanted to make this into a horse race because they would put their thumb on the scale one way and if things went the other way, they would bring it back. They managed to do that. It was a close election. Out berniey shut sanders until it was too late when they could not do it anymore. They almost had to start putting him on. There were times when the camera was fixed on the podium that donald trump was not on yet for minutes at a time. Of i have lost a lot of faith in what i see. Host that is great in wisconsin. During a discussion this week on the Immediate Impact on the election, a Democratic Media consultant discussed whether donald trump has changed how mediate will be used in future elections. Each cycle there is a moment when people take lessons, the right or wrong lessons, and test them out the next time around and i think it will be less likely that people who are following thethat donald trump model of campaigning will be successful for them or healthy for them even. What may change is how the press covers the president , right, and how the press covers the administration for the next years and whether donald trump as president will tweet and go around traditional mediums up talking to the media as president. I think it is unlikely that people will say, i want to run and i will follow be trump model. Adweekere is a piece in that was written by a firm called social bakers, showing how donald trump content was shared on twitter. Sorry,facebook i am is confident that she is content was shared dramatically more than Hillary Clintons content, Hillary Clinton is the blue line and donald trump is the redline and much more than hillary romneys, andmitt president obamas contin was shared in 2012. Donald trump has used social media in a new way during his campaign and during the election. Now even since winning the election, he has taken to twitter. In the Washington Post, Donald Trumps first week as president elect from bitter to respectful. One of his first tweets following the election said, just had a very open and successful president ial election , not professional protesters inside it by the media are protesting, very unfair love thehe tweeted, fact that small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country, we will all come together and be proud. I run from cleveland, tennessee, fromlican line byron cleveland, tennessee, republican line. As the media lost its influence . Caller yes it has come all the yes, all the mediate were talking about educated media wereh the talking about educated voters and they dismissed everyone who was College Educated and that bothered me. One of our local newspapers wrote an article in the business section that should have been on the front page of the newspaper. You have to read between the lines. I use facebook quite a bit. That is where i get my news. I read between the lines and understand exactly what they are saying. Me dismissed a large portion of the voters. Up, queenstown, maryland, democratic line. Go ahead. Caller good morning. Host good morning. Go ahead with your thoughts, has traditional media lost its influence . Caller absolutely, i am 26 and do not understand what traditional media is, the way we consume media is much more dynamic. I believe the Democratic National party needs to do a better job of branding itself through us. In the same way private businesses do, what comes to mind is businesses like apple who does a great job of branding themselves to our demographic. I think the party needs to do a better job of doing that. The Electoral College is responsible for electing a representative to explain to us why they decided to vote for the person they did in such a favorable majority. I do not think there is prejudice behind their vote because an Electoral College obviously voted for barack obama twice. They are responsible to explaining to us why they chose who they chose went it is contrary to the popular vote. Up, john from chicago, illinois, republican line. Good morning. Caller, theyast tried to explain the electoral fact, how itis the works is a fact. You can have it explained to you but it will still, be same way. That Hillary Clinton and her deplorables elected trump. I am not talking about the deplorables she was talking about because that is me. I am talking about the people out there writing now. Rioting now. Hardworking americans who are getting the shaft, with a High School Education only, because that color stuff, you have to consider who is teaching them, liberal professors. That is the way they go. Riotingorables are right now, those are the ones who elected donald trump because the rest of us all, this is not the way to go. Host a few headlines this inning, this is a story politico, donald trump shakes up the power structure, it says that donald trump has made his first key decision as president elect, sidelining governor chris christie, preparing the Transition Team in favor of mike pence. The first and of an internal power dynamic in the nation administration, donald trump have largely ignored his transition efforts ahead of the election out of a combination of superstition and the unlike when this of his ascent, his advisers say that now that a trumpet administration is a reality Trump Administration is a realit