The White House Correspondents’ Dinner happened last night and one topic that repeatedly came up at the event was the decline of Joe Biden and the media’s failure to cover it.
More than one speaker said the media bears ‘some’ of the responsibility for not getting the story out there, but that’s simply not accurate. They bear all of the responsibility. Right up until Biden’s disastrous debate performance last spring, the media covered up the story. They accused people of pushing ‘cheap fakes’ of Biden right up until the moment when they could no longer hide the truth from the public.
Alex Thompson of Axios, who covered the subject more than most, not that that’s saying much, was given an award for his work.
FOX News reports:
Axios reporter hits media for whiffing on coverage of Biden’s decline at White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Journalist Alex Thompson called out the press for failing to properly report on former President Joe Biden’s declining health at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday.
Thompson, a reporter for Axios, accepted the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage. His reporting closely documented Biden’s disastrous debate performance against President Donald Trump, the events leading up to it, and Biden’s eventual decision to exit the race. In his acceptance speech, Thompson acknowledged that the press fell short in covering the story of Biden’s decline.
“Being truth tellers also means telling the truth about ourselves. We, myself included, missed a lot of this story,” Thompson said, speaking before a room of journalists from major news outlets.
He added, “President Biden’s decline and its cover-up by the people around him is a reminder that every White House, regardless of party, is capable of deception.”…
Thompson said the media’s failure to investigate and report more aggressively on Biden’s condition contributed to growing public distrust of journalism.
Journalists at White House Correspondents’ Dinner: We Were Deceived As To Biden Cognitive Decline
but the rest of us that won the popular vote knew a long time ago that he was toast when he vacationed for 544 days during his presidency. The lies keep coming out
Delusions of Adequacy 