To many in media, Biden age stories sounded too conservative to be true

The weekend of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner reopened the debate over how the press corps covered former President Joe Biden’s age-related decline while in office, a story that for many sounded too conservative to be true.

Alex Thompson, a political reporter for Axios who had written extensively about Biden’s 2024 meltdown, received an award from the WHCA for his coverage. He used his acceptance speech to discuss how the media largely failed the public on that particular story.