text: MSW, this is not tongue-in-cheek. While I don't always agree with you, thanks for your incredibly good contribution here to this necessary debate. The biggest losers in this campaign, surprise surprise, were not the Dems! but the US "mainstream"  media and the academics. We all know that academics live in super-insulated ivory towers - but in this election, the "mainstream"media joined them in their ivory tower for bagels & chardonnay. 
  
  I am reliably informed that Australia's Antony Green (of the govt-owned ABC media & Australia's non-partisan election-guru) called the result a full hour before his American free-enterprise counterparts - and the (Australian) ABC gave continuous, live national coverage for 20 hours from 19:00h GMT Tues. Two of Australia's private commercial networks also gave live coverage - ditto there. While almost all of the Australian media were cheering for Hillary, they were sufficiently intellectually honest to tell it as it was.
  
  Quo vadis American media?