Much of the traditional media were blindsided by Trump’s election victory. To discuss why, Katie is joined by James Harding, Founder, Tortoise Media, Claire Atkinson, The Media Mix newsletter, and Max Tani, Media Editor, Semafor. Also on the show, a new investigation into the finances of the British Royal family. Alistair Jackson, Investigations Editor, Channel 4, Jennie Bond, former BBC Royal Correspondent and Kinsey Schofield, Host, To Di for Daily ask whether the Royals get an easy ride from the journalists tasked with scrutinising them. Presenter: Katie Razzall Producer: Simon Richardson Assistant Producer: Lucy Wai
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I'm Katie Razzle and this is the Media Show.
We're here to explain the trends behind the fast changing media landscape this week.
Were the press blindsided by Donald Trump's US Election victory?
From polls to legacy media outlets, the results were predicted to be on a knife edge.
We ask what went wrong.
Also, a new investigation into how the British royal family makes its money.
That's all coming up on the Media Show.
On Wednesday, Donald Trump declared victory once again in the US Election.
It's prompted some soul searching from pundits and pollsters who failed to predict the result.
To talk about the media's role in the election, I was joined by James Harding, former head of BBC News and now boss at Tortoise Media, and Max Taney, media editor at Semaphore.
Well, I think the media in large part was hedging its bets because the polls showed such a tight race.
There was a lot of uncertainty and there was a lot of apprehension among folks in the mainstream media about getting it wrong again, about underestimating Trump's strength.
What we've seen over the past several elections is that Donald Trump is, his supporters are consistently undercounted in the polls.
And so I think that there was some hedging going on among news outlets that did not want to surprise, that didn't want to surprise readers and didn't want to surprise audiences.