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Hi, I'm Eliana Johnson here this week without Chris Stierwald. Welcome to Inkstained Rutches,

where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American News Media.

And this week I have with me our friend Christine Rosen, who is media columnist at Commentary Magazine.

But more important than that, one of the commentary magazine, are you four or five now?

Well, we're four. We try to do four a day.

And then we have like a pinch hitter in Seth Mandel, one of our newer members.

So yeah, there's five of us, but we try to stick to four at a time.

A member of the Daily Commentary Magazine podcast and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

And before we get started, just a heads up for routine-oriented people that we're going to dispense with our regular format this week because we really only have one front page, one obsession.

Well, we have favorite items and maybe a little bit of style, but we're just going to talk through, since we're making up for two weeks, all of the news coverage of President Biden's

age and acuity and do this a little bit more casually. So we'll welcome, Christine. Thank you for being

here. Thanks for having me. Really appreciate it. I wanted to start off talking about a now.

Let's see, this piece was done a week ago, early July, CNN's piece by Hadass Gold.

So about a week after the debate, Biden's mental fitness could have been better covered leading up to the debate.

Some White House reporters acknowledge. And the piece had a couple telling lines that I thought it was worth talking over.

So she writes, several White House reporters told CNN that the coverage of Biden's age and his mental stamina should have should have been pushed

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