CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford admitted Sunday that the media should have been covering President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, but not for the reason you might think.
Rather than take a principled stand on the journalistic ethics of the media ignoring what she called “Joe Biden’s obvious cognitive decline,” Crawford lamented that her and the media’s lack of scrutiny cost the Democrats a chance to run a better candidate.
Crawford argued that if the media had held Biden’s feet to the fire, it could have prompted an open Democratic primary.
“It could have changed the scope of the entire election,” she said during a Sunday airing of CBS’s “Face The Nation” program.
Biden’s now-infamous 2024 debate flub eventually led to his downfall and the coronation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee.
His stuttering and inability…
