It’s no surprise whatsoever that Chelsea Clinton didn’t electrify broadcast journalism with her debut Monday night on NBC’s “Rock Center With Brian Williams,” because she has no experience in broadcast journalism. She didn’t cut her teeth with live coverage of strip-mall blazes in Sacramento. She never did weekend weather in Wichita Falls. She didn’t blow the lid off mail-order ham scams in Des Moines.
This probably falls in the category of “let’s pick Des Moines out of a hat to represent flyover country” lines. Sacramento, perhaps, is the odd choice, because it’s the 20th largest media market in the country.