National press must adapt

Toledo Blade: One of the big losers in the recent presidential election was the national press corps – the networks, the Washington Post, the New York Times and the cable news organizations.

All of these organizations were virulently anti-Trump. They didn’t just cover the New York businessman. They made it their business to oppose, and expose, him.

As a result, many Americans became more skeptical of all of the press. At a moment in which news professionals needed to show citizens that they are an independent, nonpartisan source of information and analysis – and needed to sustain democracy – too many shamed themselves with outright and supercilious bias.

Now these same media elites are faced with covering the presidency of Mr. Trump. And some of them still don’t get it. They seem to think that it is up to the president-elect to, as one national commentator put it, “follow the rules” – the media’s rules.

As to style and access to the president himself, it is the press that will have to adapt to the new occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., not the other way around.