The MSM is populated by the products of the communist controlled universities, where the faculties never set foot in the real world themselves. They lived all their lives in a false utopian academic bubble, and what they turn out are replicas of themselves to populate another generation of faculty, the staffers of government agencies, and news reporters. They occasionally “dabble” in contact with the real world, but only as necessary and in a clinically warped way that reinforces rather than alters the conceived notions.
I will bet that not one of them ever had to do a month of real work on a concrete crew, or work the floor of a factory or steel mill. Nor do they really know anything about the people who do. But these academicians, bureaucrats and newsreporters know what is best for them, and they don’t mind telling you.
And I'm sure that all they'll return to Manhattan with is a confirmation that the flyover world is populated by knuckle-dragging Neanderthals who need to be led to the light by their social and intellectual betters.