Recommended: The unbearable smugness of the press

Will Rahn of CBS News has a good piece today: The unbearable smugness of the press. The press was certainly not unbiased in this election, as some of the hacked emails posted on Wikileaks showed clearly. But it goes deeper than that.  The mainstream press has ceased to be an objective observer of the world (if it ever was) and become a propaganda corps for various causes, mostly but not entirely liberal. The problem is that they have been drinking their own Coolaid and believing their own propaganda, which is why they got it so wrong all through this election, right from the first primaries.

Rahn's assessment is right on the money. We will see if the press has learned anything from this, or if they simply can't overcome their smugness.