Carroll, a longtime eminence in the profession of journalism and a member of the Pulitzer board, summed up the discussion. “I know that there are some organizations or some journalists or some observers who feel like the media ought to put on a hair shirt,” she said. “I think that’s crap.”178 And the evening ended, with no one from any of the campaigns, or from cable news or social media or the wire services, having expressed even an ounce of regret, for anything. The election had nearly rent the nation in two. It had stoked fears, incited hatreds, and sown doubts about American leadership in
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