Soon after results were received for the 2016 US general election, Will Rahn of CBS News Digital offered an excellent internet essay that could be classified as a sort of mea culpa, about the Trump election victory and the campaign coverage provided by newspapers, television and radio:

The Tampa Tribune ceased publication on May 4, 2016, a casualty of the internet age after 121 years in print.

The mood in the Washington press corps is bleak, and deservedly so. It shouldn’t come as a surprise...