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Televised presidential debates over the years have seldom altered the course of history. But President Joe Biden\u2019s debate disaster one year ago Friday had two major effects on the nation\u2019s trajectory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His hapless performance, of course, led to the end of his re-election campaign. The debate also decisively exposed the journalism industry\u2019s long-running complicity in hiding the frailty and cognitive limitations of a sitting president. The establishment press is still suffering from that professional negligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The calamitous Biden debate brought an abrupt end to the media\u2019s smokescreen regarding Biden\u2019s capabilities. Throughout Biden\u2019s presidency, the press failed to accurately characterize his mental and physical condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As president, Biden had seldom engaged the press in serious interviews \u2014 or, heaven forbid, real press conferences in which he took impromptu questions. Instead, the rare Biden press availabilities were highly orchestrated with a prefab list of friendly reporters to \u201ccall on.\u201d Biden declined the traditional, softball Super Bowl interview. His calendar featured early lids and ample vacation days. The White House Easter Bunny even had to manage Biden\u2019s movements at a public gathering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The media ignored these realities and shamelessly echoed White House talking points about how vigorous and mentally sharp the president was, relegating any conflicting evidence to \u201ccheap fakes,\u201d as instructed by Biden\u2019s handlers. Indeed, the press colluded in hiding Biden\u2019s limitations, even though most Americans could plainly see a faltering president. This was a conscious press omission that diminished the country\u2019s ability to understand and react to the leadership void of the chief executive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The fateful Trump-Biden debate of June 27, 2024 brought plain sight into magnification. Debate moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash of CNN made a last-ditch effort to prop up Biden by raising questions that seemed to be in his wheelhouse \u2014 about abortion, January 6, the climate crisis, and threats to democracy. But Biden couldn\u2019t capitalize on the home-field advantage, and his ineptitude was on full display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recognizing that Biden\u2019s re-election chances were toast, the establishment media turned on a dime. Suddenly, journalists began the drumbeat to push Biden out of the presidential race because, of all things, he was suddenly too old and incapable. It was quite the turnaround from earlier templates for their reporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The media then promptly jumped on the Kamala Harris\u2019s presidential campaign bandwagon with as little scrutiny as they had applied to Biden. Harris was portrayed as all the things Biden was not \u2014 young, trendy, diverse, energetic and even a pop culture \u201cbrat,\u201d whatever that was supposed to mean. For an activist media, it didn\u2019t matter that Harris was basically given a coronation rather than a nomination, had played a minimal role in the Biden White House, and was consciously avoiding interaction with the press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No other televised presidential debate in American history has ever been so pivotal. Much has been made of the first Kennedy-Nixon debate of 1960, but Nixon still managed to hold his own in three subsequent debates and took the election to the wire. Nixon also rebuilt his political career and became president eight years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gerald Ford\u2019s clumsy debate discussion about Soviet domination in Eastern Europe put a damper on his 1976 campaign against Jimmy Carter. But his campaign also took the race to the finish line, losing by paper-thin margins in Ohio and Wisconsin, which could have given him the electoral victory. His loss was more heavily influenced by the post-Watergate fallout than any misstep in a debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The news industry\u2019s activist performance during the Biden era, from the 2020 campaign through his time in the White House up through the debate fallout, should count as one the most shameful examples of journalistic dereliction in American history. This sorry episode demonstrated that the journalism industry was more interested in activism than in reporting reality to a citizenry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This cynical, activist effort to herd public sentiment ultimately failed. News consumers figured out they were being worked, as a Rasmussen Reports study indicates. Many have since stopped relying on traditional media thanks to the resultant loss of trust. This is known as shooting oneself in the foot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reporters, producers and editors ignored long-standing standards of professionalism, as outlined in ethics codes of the Radio Television Digital News Association and the Society of Professional Journalists. The media\u2019s failure drove concerned citizens to get their information from podcasters, social media, influencers, kooks, and random guys on the street. The public rhetorical sphere has been weakened. It could be a long time until Americans will again trust the traditional media to provide a sensible and balanced news agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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