In between the lines of Frank Bruni’s column Friday in the New York Times, he admits what any normal person should have accepted long ago: President Trump won the 2016 election in spite of the news media, not because of it.

I literally mean between the lines. The piece is largely a plea for the national news media to “redeem” itself (the actual word he used), but here and there, he confesses that his complaint may not only be hopeless but also pointless.