We, myself included, missed a lot of this story. And some people trust us less because of it. We bear some responsibility for faith in the media being at such lows,” said Axios scribe

A top White House reporter called out former President Joe Biden’s “decline”—and the media’s failure to cover it adequately—while accepting an award at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. “President Biden’s decline and its cover-up by the people around him is a reminder that every White House,

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt argued Monday that trust in mainstream media outlets has taken a major hit in recent years partly because of news coverage of former President Biden’s final days in office and his exit from the 2024 presidential race over concerns about his mental acuity.