Biden’s “gaffes” get attention because his principal credential for becoming Trump’s opponent is “electability,” which is mostly a matter of style rather than substance
Trump does worse things every hour than Joe Biden does in weeks, which makes political journalism a challenge. Photo: Getty Images The President of the United States constantly attacks any writer or news-reader who is not a sycophant of being a purveyor of Fake News and an Enemy of the People, and joyfully predicts their imminent unemployment.
It was enough to drive veteran political writer Peter Hamby to distraction in a rant for Vanity Fair in which he excoriated journalists for paying attention to Joe Biden’s “gaffes:” At another point Hamby suggest that actual voters don’t care about Biden’s gaffes, in which case you have to wonder if coverage of them really matters. And he concedes that assessment of Biden’s cognitive powers reflects “reasonable” concerns about the mid-septuagenarian’s age and fitness for office. But still, he fears a double standard:
If news organizations, as flawed as they are, don’t redouble their efforts to separate noise and nonsense from the consequential, who else will? Politicians, propagandists, entertainers and hackers will happily fill the void. The news business has to find a way to remain sober and credible even as every incentive pulls it in the wrong direction.
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