London has effectively become a city-state, far removed from the concerns of people who live elsewhere
I feel the same is true here. A friend and I were just discussing this, in fact. Newspapers tend to cover what's happening in big cities - L.A., New York City, Washington D.C. - as if the opinions expressed there and the desires and beliefs of the residents there are somehow nationwide. But they certainly are not. People out in what the sneerers like to call "flyover country" are not ultra-chic urbanites. They have very different ways of living and thinking about the world. I think the news business in the U.S. sometimes gets lazy - the big city papers don't get out of the big city often enough because they think if they know what the urbanites think and want, they know all that matters.
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Date: 2019-12-30 03:13 am (UTC)I feel the same is true here. A friend and I were just discussing this, in fact. Newspapers tend to cover what's happening in big cities - L.A., New York City, Washington D.C. - as if the opinions expressed there and the desires and beliefs of the residents there are somehow nationwide. But they certainly are not. People out in what the sneerers like to call "flyover country" are not ultra-chic urbanites. They have very different ways of living and thinking about the world. I think the news business in the U.S. sometimes gets lazy - the big city papers don't get out of the big city often enough because they think if they know what the urbanites think and want, they know all that matters.