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What media outlets do you recommend that we look to for a more accurate assessment?

• briandear 8y ago
  The local papers of the regions in question. Certainly not elitist echo-chambers like the Atlantic — a publication that preaches diversity but fires their only conservative writer before he spent five minutes working for them. But coastal publications trying to write about the heartland is as absurd as a small town Texas paper writing about Brooklyn.
  • wilsonnb 8y ago
    I agree that the Atlantic is left leaning, although I'm not sure I would call it an elitist echo chamber. That said, I don't agree with your premise that coastal publications can't write about the heartland. I can see why you might dismiss a local paper from a coastal city writing about what goes on in the heartland, as you like to call it, but the biggest national newspapers in our country happen to be coastal publications. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, and LA times have been writing about the whole country (the whole world, actually) for many years. They can afford to send people anywhere in the world to research their stories. They can consult basically any expert they want on any subject. There's a reason local papers go out of business all of the time or get bought out by a larger paper. It's absurd to compare a small town Texas paper writing about Brooklyn to papers like those I mention above. They have resources and experience that small town papers simply don't have. I'm also not sure you know how NPR works. A lot of their coverage comes from the local member stations which seems to be exactly what you want, but you refer to NPR as coastal elites anyways.