The lack of diversity of reporters’ average experience—especially in terms of socioeconomic class and years spent around college campuses—often means they only infrequently meet people holding different views, even on topics where the dissenting views are the national majority. Indeed, perhaps counter to what they and you might think, there is actually much greater experience of socioeconomic diversity in most small towns in America than in the “super-ZIP” East Coast neighborhoods in which most reporters live, work, and go out.
