Author of Biden’s book on why the media couldn’t cover the cognitive decline scandal

Chicago – About the journalist behind the bomb book Joe Bidencognitive decline continues to face difficult questions that the media did not report earlier.

Jake Tupper and co-author of “The Original Crime: President Biden’s Decline, Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” appeared in Chicago as part of their book tour and faced audience questions submitted by the audience Fox News Digital The media is taking into account what the media has faced in recent weeks and months regarding their role in the Biden scandal.

“I mean, it was a failure of the press,” Thompson replied Thursday. “On the most basic level, I don’t think the discussion would have been so shocking if the media had been fully featured in this story.”

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Axios Reporter dismissed the notion that newsrooms are not “monoliths,” but that there is adjustments between news outlets that hide for Biden, and jokingly dismissed the notion that “we can’t even plan happy hours” to windy city crowds.

“There are so many really great reporters. There are so many great reporters at the Biden White House,” Thompson said. “And in my opinion, when this wide brush is drawn, it’s a bit frustrating, and with that being said, I think some reporters can overlook this.

“Other thing I say about the DC type of circuit beyond reporters – DC is a liberal town. It wasn’t always used to it, but if you’re a Donald Trump aggressive, tough and fair reporter, you’ll get snaps all over town. Trump administration And covers the Biden administration.

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“That’s a complicated question,” exclaimed Tupper. “Yes, I wish I was more offensive about it, but when I started writing this book after Election Day in 2024, we didn’t know how many people were going to talk to us… we spoke to over 200 people.

“And this is the idea that it’s all just waiting for a report. I wish it was, but I hope it’s not true,” Tupper said.

The CNN anchor admitted that “right-wing media” was right to call for Biden’s cognitive decline before the rest of the legacy media, but he swiped over the years that sharing Biden’s viral video was not “investigation journalism.”

“If any of these outlets announce investigative journalism, who has cabinet secretaries like us, or senior White House staff like us, then I would be more accepting of the arguments from them, not just pointing at him and saying these things.

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When asked about their report and their takeaway from the entire Biden Saga, Thompson called out journalists who rely on “moral calculations” when deciding whether to cover the major political narratives.

“If reporters are doing moral calculations, or if they start a strange calculus of, ‘If they report this, they’ll help Trump, and it’s bad or good,’ it’s an endless path that reporters don’t think they’ll do,” Thompson said. “Is this true for work and reports? Can you report it? And it’s really up to the country to decide what to do with that report. I think reporters can get caught up in thinking about the externalities and consequences of bringing this to the world.”

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“There are always people with bad faith and politicians with bad faith who take reports and distort them and use them for their partisan purposes. But they say, “Oh, I use it, I use it, I don’t want to report it as true, I think you just use it.”