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Chicago – The reporter behind the bombshell book Joe BidenThe cognitive decline in media failure to report early continues to face difficult problems.
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson are co-authors of “The Original Sin: The Disastrous Choice of President Biden’s Decline, Coverage and Run Again”, appearing in Chicago as part of their book journey and facing an audience problem. Fox News Numbers About the media in recent weeks and months, about their role in the Biden scandal.
“I mean, this is the media failed,” Thompson replied Thursday. “‘I would say, from the most basic point of view, if the press is entirely on this story, then the debate wouldn’t be shocking.”
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Axios reporter insisted that the newsroom was not a “whole” and refuted any coordinated idea between the news media, namely covering up Biden, jokingly telling the crowd of Fengdacheng that “they can’t even plan a happy time.”
“There are a lot of really great journalists, and the Biden White House has a lot of great journalists,” Thompson said. “When I think there are some bad right-wing figures trying to image, they’re all in the tank, it really frustrated me a little. Having said that, I do think there are some things that make some journalists miss this.”
“The other thing I would say is about the DC Tour outside of DC – DC is a free town. It’s not always used to it, but it’s a free town now. If you’re an aggressive, tough, fair journalist on Donald Trump, you’ll get snapshots around the town. If you’re invited to every garden party, you won’t be covering obama, and when you’re covering obama, you’re covering obama, and when you’re covering obama, he’s covering, he’s covering, he’s covering, he’s covering,” this Trump administration And covers Biden administration.
During a book event held Thursday, June 5, 2025 at the Vic Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, media handled Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, and “Primary Sin” authors Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper were imposed on the media. (Joseph A. Wulfsohn/Fox News Digital)
Tapper said: “Yes. I wish I was more aggressive about it, but I would say that when we started writing this book after the 2024 election, we didn’t know what we were going to get or how many people would talk to us… we talked to 200 people. We were surprised by what we learned. We didn’t know it was a loss.
“So the idea is, it’s all sitting there waiting for a report, and I hope it’s not true,” Tapper said.
Although CNN hosts acknowledged that it was right for the “right-wing media” to call Biden for a decline in cognitive abilities before other traditional media outlets, he shook the viral videos of Biden for years, which was not “investigation journalism.”
“If any of these media actually made any investigative news that had a cabinet secretary like us, or like us, a senior white staff, etc., saying these things, rather than just pointing and laughing at him, then maybe I would have accepted their argument more, then ‘Oh, we all know that, we all know that,” Tapper said. ”
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Asked about the gains in their reports and what the entire Biden legend is, Thompson called up journalists who rely on “moral calculus” when determining whether the main political story is covered.
“If journalists do a moral calculus, or they start doing some weird calculus, ‘If I report this, it will help Trump, it will be a good thing or a good thing,’ it’s an endless path and I think journalists should try to do it,” Thompson said. “Is the work and the reporting true? Can we report it? It really depends on the country’s decision to deal with the report. I think sometimes journalists get stuck in thinking about externalities and putting it into the world’s consequences.”
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“There will always be people with bad faith and politicians with bad faith that will take the report and misrepresent it and use it for their own partisan purposes. But if you start thinking in this way, for example, ‘Oh, I don’t want to report the real thing because people with bad faith will take advantage of it,’ I think you’re just in this thing, like Bad Cul-de-de-sac, who keeps doing it.
