I characterize the news media as underestimating Donald Trump, and "The truth is that I wasn't pro-Trump at all, I was pro-reality," "It turns out they were the ones who failed to recognize what was unfolding before their eyes," It was the most catastrophic media failure in a generation." For nearly three decades, I worked at The Washington Post and in the 1990s I emergd as one of the nation's foremost media chroniclers. I have authored several books -- on topics ranging from the rise of talk radio to President Bill Clinton's press shop to and the network news wars -- and had a high profile perch as host of CNN's Reliable Sources. During the campaign, I charged the news media with "anti-Trump "bias" and last year I said anchors had crossed the line in their coverage of the new president. "Donald Trump is staking his presidency, as he did his election, on nothing less than destroying the credibility of the news media; and the media are determined to do the same to him," Many news organizations are "no longer making much attempt to hide their contempt" for the president. Howard Kurtz