NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee lamented the way the media frames what it considers top issues while largely ignoring topics that matter most to average Americans living in the nation’s “heartland.”

“There are times that I think some of the mainstream media should just kind of get over themselves and realize the work we do in Washington is not about them or to please them necessarily,” the first-term senator told the Washington Examiner over the weekend. “It is to do what the American people want to see done and in this day.”