Perspective: Was the media complicit in concealing Biden’s struggles?
Posted on AllSides July 12th, 2024
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Andrew Harnik, Associated Press
OPINION
A former editor of The New York Times has accused the White House of conducting “a massive cover-up of the degree of the president’s feebleness and his serious physical decline” and chastised the press for not covering the story until after Joe Biden’s disastrous debate with Donald Trump.
“It’s clear the best news reporters in Washington have failed in the first duty of journalism: to hold power accountable. It is our duty to poke through White House smoke screens and find out the truth,” Jill Abramson said, adding, “It is simply...
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