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Patrick
2017 Apr 25, 9:23am
Excellent article!
The national media really does work in a bubble, something that wasn’t true as recently as 2008. And the bubble is growing more extreme. Concentrated heavily along the coasts, the bubble is both geographic and political. If you’re a working journalist, odds aren’t just that you work in a pro-Clinton county—odds are that you reside in one of the nation’s most pro-Clinton counties.
The national media really is extremely biased, and are utterly blind to that fact because journalists seem to be "normal" in the bubbles where journalists live.
And journalists for smaller local papers have all been put out of work by Google (which killed the need to pay for news) and Craigslist (which killed local classified advertising, which was most of the revenue for local papers).
So the Internet dunnit.
The media is populated by career climbers who will adopt the party line, and even prostitute their looks, i.e., short skirts, beaver flash, to get ahead. It isn't about reporting the truth.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/25/media-bubble-real-journalism-jobs-east-coast-215048
this is true of not only the media but most coastal California inhabitants.
I drive commercial truck and was in the midwest, Appalachian region, and upper South extensively in Sept and Oct 2016. The thousand and thousands and thousands of Trump signs / banners / flags vs the 7-12 Hillary bumperstickers (YES!! literally. I counted them bz they were so rare) made it apparent who would win. I was ridiculed for predicting this when at home in Sacramento. The morning after the election I was approached by various hang-dog individuals who wanted to know how I could have been "so brilliant"
I wasn't. I just have eyes and wasn't in the bubbleland.
As the article says, if the media doesn't figure it out, they will blow it big again. So will the other bubble-believers.
(PS I loath Trump and did not vote for him. I would have voted for Bernie had he been the Demo candidate)