Outsized CoverageNeedless to say, when it was an 81-year-old Biden going head-to-head against Trump, the mainstream media couldn’t stop fixating on the Democrat’s age and cognitive decline.
By one count, the Times published an eye-popping 192 news and opinion pieces about Biden’s age in the first week after the debate, compared to just 92 stories about Trump in general.
Additionally, the five authors of the Post’s deep-dive – reporters Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey, Maria Sacchetti, John Hudson, and Dan Diamond – have not collaborated on any comparable pieces about Trump’s age.
For instance, all of the Times reporters on the Biden age story are assigned to the White House beat and specifically cover the Biden administration.
The few stories they have published about Trump's age, meanwhile, have largely soft-peddled concerns about the former president’s mental fitness or framed his struggles as going “off-script.” One WaPo column last month, in fact, described Trump as “surprisingly robust” for his age.

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