Chris Cillizza, a former CNN political analyst, argued Monday that journalists’ own unconscious bias prevented them from noticing the decline of then-President Joe Biden.
Cillizza released a videotape titled "Why *still* Media Missed This Big Biden Story", where he reviewed how Axios' Alex Thompson used his reward speech in The White House Correspondent's Dinner to call out how the White House and media foul media rambles challenged Biden Biden's cognitive decline during the 2024 election. ”
Cillizza further noted that Thompson “accepted that the media missed a key part of the story, which hurt public trust.”
"Of course, it's a cover-up from the media, just look at Joe Biden," Siriza said. However, he thinks this situation is more complicated than this.
Chris Cillizza, a former CNN political analyst, talked about how the media covered then-President Joe Biden.
Biden's team has always hidden his health: WH Press SEC
Cillizza said there is a high standard that can directly report Biden has dementia or some similar condition, which he believes is unmet.
"I don't believe that the media in Joe Biden's condition has no coordinated cover-up, and the fact that our media hasn't gotten into trouble," he said. "The media should ask more questions about Joe Biden, and I should ask more questions about Joe Biden and his health. We should dig harder."
He addressed the question of why so many journalists didn’t do this and believed that it might boil down to unconscious bias that would turn a blind eye to them.
"You see any research on who journalists vote for, and they voted a lot more on Democrats than Republicans," Cillizza said. "And I think what's going on here, I think it's an inherent and unconscious bias, not a conscious bias. But I think the reporters covering this White House are too willing to take things like the Biden team. Whenever you ask Joe Biden, you're going to say, 'I mean, he means, he means, his job is stiffer than he's, but his job is his 20-year-old. The reporters are too willing to say, "Well, that makes sense." "They believe it too much."
Then-President Joe Biden watched his first presidential debate on June 27, 2024 as he participated in the first presidential debate at CNN Studios in Atlanta, Georgia in 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
Biden's team has always hidden his health: WH Press SEC
He suggested that if it was a Republican rather than Biden, it could be a very different story.
"They didn't ask enough questions. Their suspicion wasn't honed - high enough. I think that was the Republican in that office, especially if the Republican was Donald Trump, that would have little credibility. That would have had less willingness. Willing, the prince would have had no way of his goodness when he said it would have been.
He added: "I think there will be more tricky issues, and I think there should be more tricky media for Joe Biden and Joe Biden's staff. I definitely think that's true."
Over the years, many critics of traditional media have summoned the way President Biden and former President Trump treat it. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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