Buildings are built to stand the test of time. On the other hand, MSM is built upon narratives and headlines of the day or season.
MSM has long ceased to be news reported facts and really is a place where people justify what they already think, and they follow the journalists and stations that think like them - and people do this at their own intellectual peril. The MSM set up a fake/false narrative and ran with it. And the problem was, that narrative was never true.
In practice, after MSM openly laughed at the fact of a person winning a specific nomination, and then when that happened, openly mocked that person’s ability to win it all. How silly would it look if its own commissioned polls said something different? Before the first poll was taken, the MSM was statistically wedded to make sure the polls matched their mocking narrative; hence they look really stupid.
I am not too sure if you are into numbers, but I am, being a scientist by training. In that vein, I study the methodology and the demographics of polls (the ultra fine print), not the publicly reported results that the pollsters want the masses to see.
It was clear from early on that the MSM and establishment polls were intentionally set up to paint a particular picture. And how this is known because the local state polls were always at odds with the MSM polls, but those polls were not highlighted because they are not considered credible. However, those state polls were statistically and demographically, by leaps and beyonds, more accurate and showed that the winner had a much better chance of winning than reported and the loser was in worst shape than reported.
@hunt nailed it perfectly, as to why these “other” polls were not reported - the reporters and serious people who saw this were laughed at and ridiculed if they mentioned this on the air or in major print media. Therefore, the narrative of the MSM silenced those voices from being heard above the din of the narrative it was pushing. People wanted to keep their jobs and their friends, so they kept their mouths shut as to what was actually happening.
The general public knew something did not add up and what the MSM was saying and pushing did not match their lives and what they were seeing in their states. This disconnect was coupled with the fact the MSM also openly mocked the part of general public who liked Trump by calling them names etc.
Mark Cuban could not have said it any better:
Bingo to Cuban for being on the up and up here, even though I think he talks a lot of ideological nonsense. (I cannot print link here, as the article itself is a rather political one. Use the quote above and you can find the article on google I bet)
Up to the eve of the election, Mark Halperin questioned the swag confidence of the people around him who said it would be a short night and race would be called by 8 pm, and the entire table of MSM journalists laughed at him. That MSM station even discussed this yesterday how stupid they looked on that tape. In contrast, Mark Halperin placed his credibility above the narrative and friendships and good for him for doing that.
All this angst we are seeing now could have been avoided if the MSM did set up the initial fake narrative. In my book, this is case example #1 of fake news.