News media editors revealed their political disconnection from the nation in revealing how few people they know in their personal or professional circles who voted for Donald Trump.
Yahoo’s Katie Couric asked the editorial heads of The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNBC, TIME, and The Atlantic about people they know who voted for Trump during a discussion entitled, “Truth in the Trump Era.”
Partial transcript below.
KATIE COURIC: Frank Luntz asked reporters this question: Of the twenty people you see every day, you interact with, your friends, your family, your co-workers — how many of them voted for Donald Trump?
JEFFREY GOLDBERG (The Atlantic): Zero.
NANCY GIBBS (TIME): Yeah, I think not many, and that’s something I remind our newsroom of a lot, that the environment that they’re operating in and living in is not a demographically accurate mirror of the country.
NIKHIL DEOGUN (CNBC): We are the exception as a business network, but, I wouldn’t say half but probably pretty close. If I count friends, family, my wife and her family in Ohio, and I work at a business network, and you know, a fair number of people, probably not half, but probably a little under that.
JOANNE LIPMAN (USA Today): Actually, there’s a few among our close friends and family, and I actually really try to spend some time talking with them and understanding, and making sure — we had a very interesting Thanksgiving, I will tell you that. But it was civil, a lot of liquor, but very civil.
KATIE COURIC: How many, though? Out of twenty?
NANCY GIBBS (TIME): I would say a minority, but there are a few.
GERARD BAKER (The Wall Street Journal): Of course most of the people in the media don’t move in those circles. For a business newspaper, there was a lot of support for Donald Trump among CEOs. I’d say, among a lot of the people we know, I’d say less than half, but more than a quarter.
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