The Best of Reason: The 2024 Campaign Was an Embarrassment for Elite Media

Journalists increasingly see their job as protecting their preferred candidates, not asking tough questions.

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The Best of Reason: The 2024 Campaign Was an Embarrassment for Elite Media

This week's featured article is "The 2024 Campaign Was an Embarrassment for Elite Media" by Matt Welch. This article originally appeared in print under the headline, "Politics Without Journalism."

This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward.

Music credits: "Deep in Thought" by CTRL S and "Sunsettling" by Man With Roses

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[Mother's Lament (Salt farmer)]

Reason isn't elite media anymore?

Prove it by getting out of DC. Even if it's just down the road to Baltimore or Philly.

[Balloon maker]

lol. What are we mad about today? And if we’re so mad, why don’t we just stop coming to this website?

[Stupid Government Tricks]

lol. What are we you mad about today? And if we’re you're so mad, why don’t we you just stop coming to this website?

[Don't look at me!]

White Mike lives!

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Never encountered you before, but that kind of bullshit tells me to mute you right off.

[Mother's Lament (Salt farmer)]

The second a new name pops up that tells you things about the past, you know somebody is sockpuppeting, and it sound's like White Mike from the tone.

[Minadin]

It's a real shame that all these people with divergent viewpoints keep polluting the comments section of a site dedicated to free minds and free markets. We can't have that sort of heterodoxy here!

Have you ever witnessed a Libertarian National Convention?

[Don't. Get. Eliminated. (formerly R Mac)]

Haha, poor "balloon maker"

[AT]

Journalists increasingly see their job as protecting their preferred candidates, not asking tough questions.

"Journalists."

[Rick James]

Watch Reason's own Matt Welch, former reason Alum Michael Moynihan and Kmele Foster take a dump on Chuck Todd feat. Megyn Kelly.

[Minadin]

It was nice to see Matt make some decent points for a change, but it was no Red Wedding.

[Don't. Get. Eliminated. (formerly R Mac)]

For the non-boomers

https://rumble.com/v5vqun5-dems-reckon-with-bidens-pardon-lies-and-kamalas-possibly-tipsy-closing-mess.html

[Don't. Get. Eliminated. (formerly R Mac)]

8:29 Welch robs whoever came up with psarc.

[MasterThief]

Will Reason apologize for doing exactly the same thing? Fuck off with this hypocrisy

[TJJ2000]

"Journalists increasingly see their job as protecting their preferred candidates, not asking tough questions."

That's but a consequence of the "[WE] Identify-as gang" gets to RULE absolutely by 'democracy' the left has proudly touted as the save-all definition of what was a Constitutional Union of Republican States.

[Peter Kreeft taught me LOGIC, BEWARE !!!!!!!]

Jim Acosta is one of the dumbest public figures of my lifetime. I doubt he would rack 90 on an IQ test. Let's test the logic of what you say....Does your view even see a difference between right and wrong reporting on ,say, abortion and not reporting on it at all because you don't think it's important.

As has been the case sincea about 1975, the media doesn't care about morality of things but about the outcome of things. People are dying globally for lack of Religious Freedom and I hear almost nothing over the last 30 years on this.