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

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