CNN media reporter Hadas Gold found some less-than-courageous journalists to admit (anonymously) that they could have done a much better job of reporting on President Biden’s cognitive decline before the disastrous debate. But they worried about the “blowback” from Team Biden and from the “liberal Twittersphere.”
The failure of the media, one White House reporter said, was not pushing more aggressively into Biden’s abilities after the release of the Robert Hur report in February, which called Biden a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Biden’s age was also a right-wing talking point for years, something the White House was quick to point out to reporters, which may have inadvertently turned off any serious investigation.
For example, deceptively edited clips of Biden from the G7 spread widely by right-wing media figures were made to…
