What I Saw at the 2024 DNC Inflamed My Hatred of the 'Media Elite'

There was a pulsating sense of entitlement and unearned self-love that defined many of the assembled writers and media personalities.

There was the bristling levels of “traditional” media resentment towards the access and treatment the Democratic organizers and the Harris campaign afforded to social media influencers.

Many of these social media stars have significantly larger audiences than dozens of egghead reporters combined.

Julian Zelizer : It's a wonder of the modern world how many in the pampered ranks of this profession can only find it within themselves to publicly flunk this 101 -level test, again and again.

Zelizer would personally prefer it if Vice President Harris sat down for tough, long grillings with all these media outlets, and I think she should do it now, he says.

David Gergen : Democrats are little more than “little piglets gleefully inhaling the muck and empty calories at the trough of President Trump ’s lunacy” He says vanishingly few people of any prominence — in national newsrooms, in Hollywood , and definitely not within the neo-Confederate entrails of the modern-day Republican Party and conservative movement — have covered themselves in the slightest glory.

If Vice President Harris , Gov. Tim Walz , and the Democrats faceplant in this election, they will have no one to blame but themselves.