Jeffrey Goldberg’s claim that the media couldn’t report on Biden’s obvious decline without “sources inside telling you this” reveals a troubling dependency on spoon-fed narratives. He’s essentially admitting that reporters at outlets like The Atlantic wait for official propaganda before covering a story, even when evidence of Biden’s struggles was visible to anyone paying attention. This isn’t journalism—it’s gatekeeping. The public saw Biden’s incoherent statements and physical stumbles for years, yet Goldberg suggests journalists needed insider permission to point it out. That’s not a misunderstanding of “how reporting works”; it’s a confession of complicity in controlling the narrative.
During a discussion with “Original Sin” authors CNN host Jake Tapper and Axios National Political Correspondent and CNN Contributor Alex Thompson on Friday’s broadcast of PBS’s “Washington Week,” host and The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg said that he doesn’t “understand how this narrative has developed…that the media was covering for Biden. I think what might be going on here is a lack of understanding about how reporting works. In order to prove that he’s diminished, you have to have people, sources inside telling you this.” READ MORE & SEE VIDEO