It seems to me there's a vast untapped audience out there for journalism that doesn't rely on knowing who "the cool kids in Bushwick" are. That's proof right there how out of touch elite media is with large swaths of the United States. I never before was one to be like "the liberal East Coast elites, booooo!" but I'm understanding the fr…
It seems to me there's a vast untapped audience out there for journalism that doesn't rely on knowing who "the cool kids in Bushwick" are. That's proof right there how out of touch elite media is with large swaths of the United States. I never before was one to be like "the liberal East Coast elites, booooo!" but I'm understanding the frustration more every day.
I'm a liberal, but I live in Winston-Salem, NC. There's a lot more nuance here than a big city dweller might think (and I've been one, growing up in LA and Chicago). But I don't know of many national media personalities who are speaking to this, other than those grand sweeping specials talking to Real People or the billions of But Let's Talk to a Trump Supporter articles.
Millions of Americans living a totally different reality from the cool kids in Bushwick, or the people who know who the cool kids in Bushwick are, aren't being given many options between elite liberal journalists who speak the insider lingo and elite asshats who know not to use the lingo and instead speak the language of "happily being an outsider," aka a MAGA hat wearer.
I loathe the MAGA hat wearers, but I get the impulse to choose that alternative for people who never even bothered to try for an elite post-high-school education. It's...sort of punk, in the new high school of United States politics. Ugh. That's gross.
It seems to me there's a vast untapped audience out there for journalism that doesn't rely on knowing who "the cool kids in Bushwick" are. That's proof right there how out of touch elite media is with large swaths of the United States. I never before was one to be like "the liberal East Coast elites, booooo!" but I'm understanding the frustration more every day.
I'm a liberal, but I live in Winston-Salem, NC. There's a lot more nuance here than a big city dweller might think (and I've been one, growing up in LA and Chicago). But I don't know of many national media personalities who are speaking to this, other than those grand sweeping specials talking to Real People or the billions of But Let's Talk to a Trump Supporter articles.
Millions of Americans living a totally different reality from the cool kids in Bushwick, or the people who know who the cool kids in Bushwick are, aren't being given many options between elite liberal journalists who speak the insider lingo and elite asshats who know not to use the lingo and instead speak the language of "happily being an outsider," aka a MAGA hat wearer.
I loathe the MAGA hat wearers, but I get the impulse to choose that alternative for people who never even bothered to try for an elite post-high-school education. It's...sort of punk, in the new high school of United States politics. Ugh. That's gross.