In watching the coverage of the Republican debates and the primaries thus far, one thing has become obvious – the Mainstream Media needs a passport whenever they are outside the NY-DC-LA bubbles. This is a different country to them – one they don’t understand and are ridiculing at every turn.
It became most obvious when Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopolis were preparing to cover the result of the Iowa Caucus. It was apparent they were uncomfortable with having to be outside their comfort zone on the east coast and felt Iowa was beneath them. There were looks at each other and at the audience when they made comments that communicated that they felt they were in the land of idiots, boobs and hicks.
This is not a new problem for the American Mainstream Media. After the 2004 elections when the NY-DC-LA media thought John Kerry had the election sewn up only to be shocked by the results, the NY media leaders decided they needed ‘foreign correspondents’ to go into the heartland to try to understand them. The people in ‘flyover country’ were foreign to the thinking of the media bubble of NY-DC-LA.
It was a short experiment with getting in touch with the rest of us. It failed.
Instead, they started their concerted attacks on George W. Bush, got Barak Obama to run a nonsensical campaign and the rest is history. Now, the media thinks they know the answer to winning elections: Create an image and sell it every day with puff-piece stories and sycophantic reporting. For some reason they have missed the patina of anger that covers the country between their media bubbles.
The media should have to bring their passports to come out here with the rest of the country and we should have the right to tell them to go back, we don’t want them here.
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