Source: The American Conservative
by W James Antle III
“Legacy media gatekeepers are losing their grip on the public conversation and they don’t like it, even if they mostly deserve it. … In the past, the default position of most in the media would be to at least grudgingly find a kindred spirit in a public figure who delivers a defense of free speech, even if they dislike the person who delivered the message or find them a flawed messenger for the First Amendment and the Fourth Estate. The trouble is that a nontrivial number of influential media figures no longer see themselves in such appeals to free speech, especially when a conservative political leader takes up the mantle. They see their competitors and, more charitably, the purveyors of wrongthink against whom they are the last line of defense.” (02/19/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/twilight-of-the-fourth-estate/