They are less connected to the community because of their own mobility. This may also be true of Americans in general. We may just be reflecting what is going on America. But I think that the risk of being out of touch may be less one of class than one of roots. So, you know, the old image of the reporter in the bar and on the beat with sources on the street, that's one image that may be past and gone.
Reporters are now specialists.
They can trnsmit what's going on in a fast-changing high tech world, and that is the sort of thing that reporters of a previous generation weren't able to do nearly as well. There seem to be a lot of books out early in this campaign and many of them harshly critical of the Clintons. The other thing that strikes me about it is the time frame, as it becomes shorter and shorter, people's attention time frame has become shorter too. The publisher's are reacting to that now, and they have decided the market for a post-campaign book is obviously very small. People don't care about something after it has happened.