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Why did the media get the U.S. election so wrong?

Paddy O'Connell looks at Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election - one that much of the mainstream media failed to predict. Emily Bell and James Delingpole discuss how old and new media covered the campaign and why mainstream media didn't correctly predict the outcome.

First broadcast on The Media Show, 9 November 2016.

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