Eyeballs glass over when viewing a complicated story. Therefore media embraces the simple message and Trump is a master of the simple message.
Is Mark Zuckerberg in touch with the real world and with what his invention helped bring about? Is he quietly whistling to himself "It's the end of the world as we know it," blissfully in denial?
Journalists don't seem interested in self-examination, and they certainly don't seem open to admitting that their occasionally colossal blunders helped tip the scales in Trump's favor.