During an interview with NPR’s “Fresh Air” released on Thursday, New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet stated “we did not have a handle on just how much anxiety there was in the country. And we did not have a handle on just how much that anxiety was going to drive the election.” And “the New York-based, and Washington-based too, probably, media powerhouses don’t quite get religion.” Baquet said, [relevant remarks begin around 28:30] “We wrote a lot of stories about anxiety in America. We even did a series called ‘Anxious America.’ But we did not have a handle on just how much anxiety there was in the country. And we did not have a handle on just how much that anxiety was going to drive the election. … I could pull out 25 stories that would prove the point that we wrote about it. But I would be dishonest if I didn’t say those stories didn’t quite add up to a powerful portrait of an angry electorate, an electorate that just wanted change. So, yeah, I think that’s a story we could have done better. By the way, I think even Donald Trump was surprised by the level of that anxiety in