“Being truth-tellers also means telling the truth about ourselves. We, myself included, missed a lot of this story. President Biden‘s decline and its cover-up by the people around him is a reminder that every White House, regardless of party, is capable of deception.”

Those were the words of Axios reporter Alex Thompson at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in his retrospective prognosis of the media’s handling of the coverage, or lack thereof, of former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.