No. Their problem is that they know, but don't *care* what you think. They view their job as being to educate the unwashed masses (read: brainwashing) to the "correct" way of progressive international thinking.
For instance, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, South Dakota's only statewide newspaper, *knew* that Senator Daschle gave a pro-choice speech at an Emily's List soire. The Sioux Falls Argus Leader's editors simply spiked that story because it inconveniently exposed Senator Daschle's "pro-life" lies.
Daschle was telling Dakota citizens one thing, but telling his fellow progressives something different altogether, and that specious, evil duplicity was consciously aided and abetted by the Sioux Falls Argus Leader.
It is only through sycophantic liberal news media complicity that Democrats can say one thing to their constituents, yet vote entirely differently in Washington. Daschle claimed to be "pro-life" to his Dakota voters (because they are overwhelmingly pro-life), yet he voted *against* President Bush's ban on Partial Birth Abortion.
...And the news media *knew* that fact. Contrary to your claim above, the news media also knew that Dakota voters think of themselves as pro-life.
So the liberal news media simply omitted Daschle's voting history from the public record that they published.
So it isn't as you claim above that the news media doesn't *know* what the Heartland thinks. No, it's much more insidious than that. The news media knows what we think, they simply don't care. Moreover, they are on a conscious mission to *change* how we think whether we like it or not, and they are quite willing to lie (Dan Rather) or spike stories (content of Democratic Senate Intelligence Committee memos) or omit facts like voting records and speeches that portray their fellow progressives in a bad (read: accurate) light (e.g. Sioux Falls Argus Leader not mentioning Daschle's pro-abortion record that contradicted his pro-life campaign claims).
The liberal news media is the *opposite* of being insulated and isolated as you imply above. They have their reporters in every town in the U.S. They know full well what is going on and how we think. So their behavior is not explained by simply claiming that they don't "know."
It's much more evil than that.
