The media spent the entire election working hard to assist former Democrat presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, in her attempt to defeat President-elect Donald Trump to no avail.

And one Wall Street Journal editor said that even after doing disastrous damage to their own reputations in 2016 the media has not learned its lesson, The Daily Wire reported.

The Journal’s editor-at-large Gerard Baker spoke to Morning Wire about how the 2016 election did not teach them anything about covering the election in 2024.

“Well, if you recall, after the shock of the 2016 election, when Donald Trump won despite the media telling us that there was virtually no chance of that happening,” he said to host and Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley.

“We had those famous probability indicators saying that Hillary Clinton had a 90 percent chance of winning. The shock that so many American media companies discovered that there were so many people in this country who wanted to vote for Donald Trump, even though they didn’t know it, the media companies didn’t know it,” he said.

Baker said that after 2016 some in the media vowed to learn more about the citizens of America but they failed.

“The editor of the New York Times at the time said that was one of his priorities after 2016, [was] to know more about the country,” he said. “They kind of went forth in the manner of 19th-century anthropologists venturing into darkest Africa to discover who these people were who voted for Trump. And they presumably found them and then we didn’t really hear very much more from them except when we got to the election campaign of 2024 and we sort of were just told by so many of these media organizations that Trump supporters were a lot of fascists.”

Baker noted further that the most interesting part of the 2024 election was how many gains the president-elect made in blue areas.

“[W]hat we saw in this election was actually really significant gains for Trump and for the Republicans in some of these places where these journalists are concentrated,” he said. “We have seen this remarkable phenomenon, big gains for Trump compared with 2020 in places like New York City and Chicago and San Francisco and L.A.”

He said that he does not believe that the media is going to learn its lesson this time either.

“I think they’ll go through a little bit of the soul searching they went through in 2016,” Baker said. “But I think that the die is cast…the staff of these news organizations is just so monolithically left of center, and not just left of center, but committed, as I say, in a kind of an activist way, that I don’t really see that unwinding.”