Peter Thiel was right when he said that Trump supporters take him seriously, but not literally.
When it comes to reporting the news, and a presidential campaign and election is obviously news, the MSM takes everything literally and seriously. That is the definition of reporting isn’t it ?
There are 10s of millions of voters who probably preferred to consume literal information from MSM sources they trust and process it before they decided which Presidential candidate they voted for.
There are 10s of millions of voters who probably preferred to consume other, non MSM sources of information.