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New York Post
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- Politics
- New York Post
Washington Post media critic admits failure in scrutinizing Biden coverage after ‘Where's Jackie' gaffe
Advertisement Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple reflected on his own 'failure' Monday in scrutinizing press coverage of Joe Biden and his cognitive decline, particularly after the infamous 'Where's Jackie?' gaffe. As the legacy media continues to face a reckoning over how it handled covering the former president's mental acuity before his disastrous 2024 debate performance, Wemple wrote a scathing piece calling out news organizations for not admitting any errors with the headline, 'Did legacy media fail in its Biden coverage? Not if you ask them!' In his lengthy critique, Wemple revisited an episode from a September 2022 event where Biden called for Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., who had died just weeks earlier in a car accident. Biden previously released a statement acknowledging her death after it happened and the event he attended similarly honored her memory. Advertisement 4 Erik Wemple wrote a scathing piece calling out the media's lack of self-reflection. Fox News 'Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie?' Biden said in the viral moment. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended the president at the time, insisting Walorski was simply 'top of mind.' 'It's time to turn this exercise on my own byline,' Wemple wrote Monday. 'The 'Where's Jackie' episode was my cue to start hammering mainstream outlets for not pushing on this story. Never happened — that was a failure.' Wemple noted, as Fox News Digital did at the time, that neither CNN nor MSNBC offered any coverage of the 'Where's Jackie' comment. Advertisement 4 Former President Joe Biden speaks during the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, at the Ronald Reagan Building, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, in Washington. AP 4 Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., is seen before a House Ways and Means Committee markup in Longworth Building on July 12, 2018. CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag While acknowledging some in the press, like Axios' Alex Thompson and The Wall Street Journal's Annie Linskey and Siobhan Hughes for their pre-debate reporting that shed light on Biden's cognitive decline, Wemple knocked the media for broadly lacking the vigor to get to the bottom of it sooner. 'White House coverage must involve more than observing the president in action and writing up analysis pieces about his comings and goings,' Wemple wrote. Advertisement 'It needs to include a muckraking component detailing behind-the-scenes strategies, conflicts and debates over all manner of issues, particularly those relating to the president's mental acuity. An adjacent question relates to whether Biden himself was fully abreast of and in charge of day-to-day decisions.' 4 The Washington Post office in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, June 27, 2024. Bloomberg via Getty Images 'And it's on these fronts that major media organizations fell short: Though Biden's declining faculties were clear to all, they never ignited one of those glorious mainstream-media investigative frenzies that colonizes television and radio broadcasts,' he added. Thompson's 'Original Sin' co-author, CNN anchor Jake Tapper, said there should be 'soul-searching' in the legacy media for how Biden's clearly apparent issues were covered. 'Few souls are undergoing a pat-down,' Wemple wrote.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Megyn Kelly Grills Jake Tapper for Being Part of Biden ‘Cover Up'
Right-wing pundit Megyn Kelly on Tuesday grilled CNN anchor Jake Tapper over what she claimed was his role in covering up former President Joe Biden's mental decline while in office. His new book, Original Sin, covers the topic extensively and reveals how Biden's inner circle helped to conceal his deteriorating health. Kelly pressed the CNN anchor on his coverage of Biden's presidency, noting how he is being criticized for complaining about a cover-up of Biden's mental acuity in his book, even though this has been 'something that right-wing pundits, the right wing in general, and independent media all saw and reported on.' 'It wasn't a mystery, even to left-wing reporters. They weren't fools, but they chose blindness over honest reporting,' she claimed. In response, Tapper admitted to making certain oversights about Biden's condition, but stood by his reporting generally. The CNN star added that he only later discovered that insiders 'justified' covering up Biden's condition during the 2016 election 'by saying that Donald Trump was an existential threat, and only Joe Biden could defeat him.' 'That, in their minds, justified everything,' he said. Biden revealed Sunday that he was diagnosed with an 'aggressive form' of prostate cancer that had spread to his bones, sparking another round of wild speculation that there had been a cover-up of the president's condition. Kelly continued to pressure Tapper, accusing him of seemingly 'running cover for the president' during his presidency by deliberately avoiding asking him certain questions in regards to his slurred speech, the way he occasionally lost his train of thought, and his multiple tumbles. She brought up an incident in 2022, when Biden called out for the deceased Indiana congresswoman Jackie Walorski at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, asking the crowd: 'Where's Jackie?' Walorski had passed away in a car crash a few weeks prior, and a memorial video tribute to her was played moments before Biden's slip-up. He had also previously ordered that the White House flags be flown at half-staff in her honor. 'There is a way of pressing a man like that on the actual infirmities to bring it home to him and to the audience and you didn't do it,' Kelly said. 'That's correct, I didn't,' Tapper replied. Yet, he did note that he questioned Biden about concerns people had about his age, to which the former president replied: 'Watch me.' 'And I said, they're watching you and they are concerned that you are too old for this job,' Tapper said. He also stated that he feels 'humility' about his coverage of Biden, admitting that he didn't pressure him enough on his visible health issues. The pair discussed Tapper's interview with Lara Trump in 2020, when he accused her of mocking Biden's stutter when she claimed it showed his deteriorating health. 'I think you were mocking his stutter and I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline,' Tapper told Trump in the interview. He admitted to Kelly that Trump 'saw something' that he did not at the time, and he '100 percent' owns that. Yet Kelly said that she thinks Tapper's 'visceral reaction' to Trump was 'because you didn't want to hear it.' She went on to state that CNN had their own connections in Biden's White House, but didn't use them to further investigate Biden's condition. 'You've been in Washington 30 years Jake, you and CNN have White House connections,' she told him. 'But there was no effort, none, to get to the bottom of this,' she said, accusing them of covering up Biden's worsening health. 'And now for you guys to write this book like 'there was a cover up' ... There was an attempted cover up, and it could only ever work if you allowed it.'
Medscape
15-05-2025
- Health
- Medscape
1 in 4 US Children Live With Addicted Parents
Nearly 19 million US children live with at least one parent meeting Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fifth Edition; DSM-5) criteria for substance use disorder (SUD), representing one quarter of all US children in 2023. Over 6.1 million of these children have parents with comorbid SUD and mental illness, making them particularly at risk for adverse childhood experiences. METHODOLOGY: Analysis included nationally representative data from the 2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health of the civilian, noninstitutionalized US population aged ≥ 12 years. Researchers followed the STROBE reporting guideline, with institutional review boards deeming the study exempt from review due to the use of deidentified data. Data collection involved interviewing one adult per selected household, who reported relationships to other household members, including biological, step, foster, or adoptive children aged < 18 years. Statistical analysis estimated weighted counts and 95% CIs of youth exposed to parental DSM-5–defined SUD, including disorders related to alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, hallucinogens, heroin, inhalants, methamphetamine, and prescription medications. TAKEAWAY: Based on the 2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health total weighted number of 62,637,851 parents, researchers estimated 18,968,894 (95% CI, 16,806,368-21,261,446) children lived with at least one parent meeting DSM-5 SUD criteria. Among affected children, 7,643,244 (95% CI, 6,468,786-8,911,360) lived with a parent having moderate or severe SUD, while 3,409,675 (95% CI, 2,568,782-4,358,248) had parents with multiple SUDs. Researchers found that 6,148,289 (95% CI, 5,012,046-7,389,039) children lived with a parent having comorbid SUD and mental illness, defined as major depressive disorder and/or serious psychological distress. Parental SUDs predominantly consisted of alcohol use disorder, followed by cannabis use disorder, prescription-related use disorder, and noncannabis drug use disorder. IN PRACTICE: 'Children exposed to parental SUD are more likely to develop adverse health outcomes than their peers without parental SUD exposure, including early substance use initiation, substance-related problems, and mental health findings signal the need for more attention at the federal, state, and local levels on the children and families affected by addiction. Evidence-based, family-based treatments for SUD and mental illness can prevent adverse health consequences in this population,' the authors of the study wrote. SOURCE: This study was led by Sean Esteban McCabe, PhD, Center for the Study of Drugs, Alcohol, Smoking, and Health, University of Michigan School of Nursing in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was published online in JAMA Pediatrics . LIMITATIONS: According to the authors, the study faced limitations common to large-scale national surveys, including potential sampling bias, selection bias, and self-report bias. Additionally, the number of offsprings in households was truncated at three or more, suggesting that the estimates represented the lower bound of youths exposed to parental SUD. DISCLOSURES: This study was supported by grants RO1DA031160 and RO1DA043691 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health. McCabe reported receiving grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse during the conduct of the study. Additional disclosures are noted in the original article.
