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Did legacy media fail in its Biden coverage? Not if you ask them!

Washington Post - Erik Wemple · Erik Wemple · last updated

In a recent interview with SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly, CNN host Jake Tapper called for a reckoning over the coverage of former president Joe Biden’s age. “There should be a lot of soul searching,” said Tapper, “not just among me, but among the legacy media to begin with, all of us, for how this was covered or not covered sufficiently.”

Few souls are undergoing a pat-down. I asked 17 news outlets at the forefront of White House coverage whether they believe they had failed in any aspect of their coverage of Biden’s age.

They do not.

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