NBC’s Brokaw, Todd Confess Media Has ‘Totally Underestimated’ and ‘Overlooked’ ‘Rural America’

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With the presidential election returns on Tuesday remaining close well past 10:00 p.m. Eastern, a few figures in the major broadcast networks began to take stock of the situation (with some not taking it as well as others) with NBC’s Tom Brokaw and Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd admitting that we may have “totally underestimated” and looked down on “rural America.” 

Brokaw admitted not long after the 10:00 p.m. Eastern projections and poll closings, the former NBC Nightly News anchor admitted to those around the set that “[w]hat has been totally underestimated by those of us in the so-called press establishment and the people who have been looking at this is the depth of the anger.”