Media is making Biden’s age an issue
President Joe Biden is 80 years old. It’s possibly the least-interesting fact about a president who has been enormously successful at passing the most progressive politics of any president in generations. But it’s also the one fact that news outlets are trying to hammer home in every single story.
Over the past week, Biden has been on a whirlwind international trip. On Friday, he landed in New Delhi, where he immediately went into meetings and press events with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, before launching into a marathon session of meetings and negotiations with G20 leaders on Saturday. During those long days, Biden huddled in groups and one on one with over 30 world leaders. On Sunday, he finished G20 negotiations, visited a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, then traveled to Hanoi to begin a series of meetings in Vietnam designed to show China that the U.S. remains a presence in the region.
At the end of a long series of days that had Biden almost constantly engaged in high-stakes negotiations, the president conducted an evening press event. So how did The New York Times choose to headline this event?
