Journalists Are Completely Out Of Touch With America And Reality - Tilting At Windmills

Journalists Are Completely Out Of Touch With America And Reality - Tilting At Windmills
"When you get up in the morning, what are you worried about?
For most of us, there are degrees of worry. 

You may be predominantly worried about some work task, but on a different level, you might be worried about, say, terrorism.
You’re concerned about both, of course, but there are layers of that concern.

• It seems that left-leaning publication Axios doesn’t really get that.

...The big picture: Workers are burned out not just by their jobs but by the cultural drama around them — fallout from the Trump presidency, continued police shootings, and the consequences of Jan. 6.
That’s right. 

People aren’t interested in working because of what happened at the Capitol on January 6th or because of police shootings. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

...Here’s what National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke had to say on the subject.
Once again, I must ask: Has the average member of the press corps ever actually met anyone in America?
This isn’t a conservative-vs.-progressive thing.

It’s not a Republican-vs.-Democrat thing. 

It’s not a coastal-elite-vs.-flyover-country thing. 

It’s not even a Trump thing.

•  It’s a journalists-vs.-normal-people thing.

Outside of the narcissistic and incestuous Thunderdome that houses the American media, it remains the case that people simply do not think in the way that the Beltway-media class believes they do. 

They are not traumatized by the daily news. 

They do not make key life decisions based upon the behavior of the president, nor wait for him to leave office before deciding that they are so disturbed that they no longer wish to work.

...And when they are looking to enjoy a good “cultural drama,” they do not look for it in the same places as the editors of the Washington Post do...Read all.