TruthRevolt’s mission is to point out the hypocrisy of leftists and the insatiable liberal bias among the media elite. So, it’s nice, if not a little shocking, when some in the mainstream press actually fess up to their own wrongdoing with no prompting at all.

Politico has published “What the Press Still Doesn’t Get About Trump” that features 13 lessons “the media still haven’t learned about the president.” Below are a few highlights from the piece:

We still trust the polls too much: “It is odd to see journalists retain their faith in a discredited source instead of questioning its reliability. Shouldn’t they instead launch an inquiry into the 2016 polling fiasco?”

We’re not only stuck in bubbles—social media is making them worse: “On March 15, a Guardian correspondent tweeted a photo of a Trump voter at a rally for the president in Nashville. The man was holding a sign that read, “I’ve made a huge mistake.” This was a perfect distillation, it seemed, of the regret that onetime Trump supporters were surely feeling now that he was actually in office… But such images also risk lulling people into thinking that Trump is less popular than he is. Too often, we cherry-pick examples that fit our worldview, and social media blows them out of proportion. Many journalists vastly underestimated Trump’s popularity before the election; the media need to avoid making the same mistake now that he is president.”

We’re still ignoring the people who elected Trump: “We are continually tempted to devote our attention and resources to parochial concerns, to the Beltway questions of who is up and who is down, which party is winning and which is losing, what controversy the president finds himself mired in today. But this is to miss the forest for the tweets.”

The media’s priorities are all wrong: “For starters, media are clustered, and prone to herding. Not only did this cause them to underestimate Trump’s election chances, but they continue to miss the dynamics of polarization in this country, and what that means for politics. Pundits and many journalists also remain attracted to horse-race stories that resemble fiction (stumble in the second act! comeback in the third act!), which causes them to miss real dynamics because they are too busy fitting their reporting into interesting narrative structures.”

The press is still biased against Trump: “The media continue to misconstrue Trump’s image and character—including his appeal to many Americans—because they don’t realize how tiresome identity politics and grievances have become… Since the inauguration, the irrationality has only gotten worse. But while we have strong analysis and correction by the media of the Trump administration—as we should—the protesters undergo little inquiry. They are simply cast as conscientious objectors to a bad leader. We need the press to do its job and tell us who the organizers are, where the money comes from, and what the rank and file in the crowds want.”

It’s not a perfect list, and clearly the bias is as strong as ever, but this is at least a start. 

For the complete "confession," and more in-depth reflection, click here.