Biden book authors pressed on why the media failed in covering cognitive decline scandal

CHICAGO - The journalists behind the bombshell book about Joe Biden's cognitive decline continue to face tough questions about the media's failure to assessment on it sooner Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson the co-authors of Original Sin President Biden's Decline Its Cover-up and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again appeared in Chicago as part of their book tour and were confronted with an audience question submitted by Fox News Digital about the reckoning the media has been facing in fresh weeks and months regarding their role in the Biden disgrace I mean it was a failing of the press Thompson responded Thursday 'I'd say on the greater part basic level if the press was entirely on this story then the debate would not have been such a shock BIDEN BOOK AUTHOR REVEALS HOW WHITE HOUSE STAFF TRULY FELT ABOUT KARINE JEAN-PIERRE AS PRESS SECRETARYThe Axios reporter insisted newsrooms aren't a monolith and dismissed the notion that there was any coordination between news outlets in covering up for Biden jokingly telling the Windy City crowd they can't even plan a happy hour There are a lot of really great reporters and there are a lot of great reporters in the Biden White House Thompson noted And it does frustrate me a bit when there's this broad brush painted by in my opinion several bad-faith right-wing people trying to be like They were all in the tank That being declared I do think there were a sparse things going on that allowed particular reporters to miss this One is I do think specific people let their own personal ideological leanings affect how they broadcasted The other thing I will say about the D C sort of circuit beyond reporters D C is a liberal town It didn't inevitably use to be but it is now And if you are an aggressive tough fair reporter on Donald Trump you get snaps all around town If you are invited to every single garden party You don't get as a large number of yes snaps when you're covering Obama or when you're covering Biden he continued adding that the social incentives change between covering the Trump administration and covering the Biden administration CNN'S TAPPER RIPS MEDIA SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUR WSJ ON BIDEN DECLINE WITHOUT MENTIONING OWN INFRASTRUCTURE It's a complicated question Tapper chimed in Yes I wish I had been more aggressive about it but I will say when we started writing this book after Electoral process Day we did not know what we were gonna get or how a great number of people were gonna talk to us We talked to more than people And we were surprised at what we learned Like we did not know that certain of this dated back to after the tragic loss of his son Beau And so the idea is that this was all just sitting there waiting for the reporting I wish it was so it is not true Tapper explained While the CNN anchor conceded that right-wing media was right in calling out Biden's cognitive decline before the rest of the legacy media he swiped that sharing viral videos of Biden over the years isn't investigative journalism If any of those outlets really published any investigative journalism that had cabinet secretaries as we do or senior White House staffers as we do etc saying these things as opposed to just pointing and snickering at him then maybe I would be more receptive to the argument from them Oh we all knew this as we published it at the time Tapper commented SHIELDING BIDEN JOURNALISTS SHED LIGHT ON THE MEDIA'S COVER-UP OF A WEAKENED PRESIDENTWhen demanded what their takeaways from their reporting and the entire Biden saga were Thompson called out journalists who rely on a moral calculus when determining whether to cover a major political story If reporters are doing a moral calculus or they start doing certain weird calculus where If I description this would it help Trump and that's gonna be bad or good ' that is an endless path that I don't think reporters should be trying to do Thompson mentioned The job and the reporting is is this true Can we summary it And it's really up to the country to decide what to do with that reporting I think sometimes reporters get caught up in thinking about the externalities and the consequences of putting this out into the world CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP There are consistently going to be bad-faith people and bad-faith politicians that are gonna take the reporting and skew it and use it for their own partisan purposes But if you start thinking that way in saying like 'Oh I don't want to overview something that's true because bad-faith people are gonna take advantage of it ' I think you just end up in this like bad cul-de-sac he continued