Original Sin: The Media's Decline, Its Self-Delusion, and Their Disastrous Choice To Abandon Truth

The way the media is covering Jake Tapper's new book "Original Sin" is just another piece of evidence that they've learned absolutely nothing. And honestly? That's the most devastating part.

So Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's book "Original Sin" has landed like a grenade in media circles, exploding across every right-wing talk show (including mine, admittedly). But last night, as I sat pondering the book's apparent revelations about Biden's cognitive decline and the White House's frantic cover-up attempts, I felt something unexpected: sadness.

Not the kind of sadness you feel when your favorite team loses, but the deep, gut-wrenching sadness that comes from watching an institution you once respected continue its spectacular free-fall into irrelevance.

The Guardians Who Abandoned Their Post

Remember when we used to call the media "the Fourth Estate"? When we actually believed their duty was to inform the public and hold our institutions accountable regardless of political affiliation? (Quaint concept, I know.) That media understood something fu…