We’re witnessing a rapid adjustment in our economy due to the coronavirus. The social distancing shutdown has shown that workers on apartment couches can fill previously immovable jobs in major cities, and that distance learning can work in schools for all ages. Similarly, it has been both enlightening and heartening to watch the evolution of cable news in recent weeks, as serious changes were desperately needed.

In the wake of President Trump’s 2016 election, there was a particularly visible degree of confusion emanating from the glitzy skyscrapers of Manhattan and Los Angeles, where the majority of our nation’s news media reside. We all remember the mournful punditry and print columns smacking of a certain disdain for the country at-large, with the sharpest scorn saved for “flyover country.” There was a sense among the liberal media in the year after the election of Donald Trump that an effort was needed to reconnect with the country it was tasked with covering.