a gunman targeted President Trump at administration officials at the White House

Correspondents dinner this weekend.

And he left a manifesto.

So is he just another crazy person?

Or is this a worrying trend toward politicized left-wing violence?

What about the media's role in all this?

What do we think about the coverage?

Welcome to the Reason Roundtable.

This is your Libertarian Review of News and politics from the editors of Reason magazine. I am your host, Peter Souterman. And today, as always, I am joined by my colleagues, Catherine Mangy Ward, Matt Welch, and Nick Gillespie. Catherine, I'm going to start with you. So obviously, this is the White House correspondence. There are a lot of journalists in that room.

Anything stand out to you about the coverage of this event?

Yeah, I mean, for a room full of journalists, there sure was a lot of confusion and bad coverage in those first few minutes.

And I say that understanding that it was the fog of war.

And also I say that having been in that Hilton many times and knowing that the layout is

especially conducive to confusion, like it's hard to navigate in that Hilton when it's just a

regular old rubber chicken dinner, much less attempted assassination. So I get it. But I kind of wish that some of the journalists had pointed

their cameras at the action and not at their own selves to make Instagram reels of their reaction

to the action. Okay, in defense of the pointing it at yourself, there wasn't much to see if you were in the

ballroom. There were a bunch of secret service agents on the stage with guns pointed outward.

There was the brief moment where Donald Trump was evacuated. And that was about it because the

security incident, because the shooter went through the security area upstairs,

like in a totally different zone, right? So there wasn't a whole lot to see. And if you want to

talk to people, you talk to the camera. Yes. And this is not a new thing, right? Like having the

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