Will Bunch has an interesting observation regarding the press, that they are almost completely divorced from life around them.

He was reading an account of Len Downie upon his retirement from the Washington Post, and he noted that Downie said that he did not have any friends outside of the paper. Note also that Downie also did not register to vote until he retired.

So Bunch asks the question, “If Len Downie only hung around with other journalists, where did he get his ideas for what was news?”

The answer is, of course, PR flacks, because he has no context to make these decisions on his own.