“Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a waste of precious time. What a failure to meet this moment.”

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #Biden #dementia #CognitiveDecline #media #JakeTapper
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https://www.americaamerica.news/p/heeding-the-warnings

"While it’s useful to have that kind of reckoning [with Biden's legacy], a more important one remains largely missing: the failures of the mainstream press in covering Trump, starting from 2015 and certainly running right through the 2024 campaign with its normalizing and 'sane-washing.'

In fact, it’s still going on."

~ Margaret Sullivan

#Trump #Biden #dementia #CognitiveDecline #media #JakeTapper
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https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/a-powerful-call-to-duty-civic-action

"As corporate media, and CNN in particular, remains obsessed over Joe Biden’s mental acuity while glossing over Donald Trump’s advanced age, obesity, and repeatedly sleeping during public events, I hope they spend some airtime on MAGA’s utterly cruel and repugnant plans to make cancer and death great again."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #Biden #dementia #CognitiveDecline #media #JakeTapper
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/will-joe-bidens-cancer-get-the-jake

"President Biden’s struggle with cancer will undoubtedly be red meat for the corporate media vultures. It’s up to us remind them, and each other, that the person who’s currently in the Oval Office right now and his right-wing minions are doing everything they can to ensure that the rest of us, who lack Biden’s wealth and stature, will lose the health care we’ll need to keep our loved ones alive."

#Trump #Biden #dementia #CognitiveDecline #media #JakeTapper
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"The media’s failure to meet the Trump challenge is not just a failure of coverage. It’s a failure of imagination, responsibility, and courage. Trump is not a normal political figure. He is a threat to the very system that enables journalism to function freely."

~ Mark Mansour

#Trump #Biden #dementia #CognitiveDecline #media #JakeTapper
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https://mmansour.substack.com/p/the-corporate-media-and-trump-an

"And yet 'journalists' such as Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios focus on Biden’s cognitive state months after he left office, without a word about Trump’s erratic and unpredictable behavior as well as signs that he is mentally unstable. …

If the media wants to reclaim its role as a bulwark against tyranny, it must first acknowledge its complicity."

#Trump #Biden #dementia #CognitiveDecline #media #JakeTapper
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