Trying to reconcile the irreconcilable realities

I spend a lot of time listening to the news and politics, almost certainly more than my entire readership combined (which is almost certainly very small). My thoughts on the matter is that there are (at least) two entirely different media markets with realities that are diametrically opposed and facts that are opposite of the other. Blue states and red states can't communicate because the language used is not the same. We can watch the same event such as a debate and each candidate uses special code words that are inherently understood by their constituency and not understood by anyone else. If you don't understand the code, then that candidate sounds foolish and out of touch with your reality. That is why two groups of people can each have 85% or greater agreement that their candidate's performance was "greatly superior" to the performance of the opposing candidate.

Ted Stevens and Chuck Schumer can make front pages news for corruption and scandal in North Carolina but I have no idea how these stories are covered by local media in their home states.