“78% of The New York Times' articles were focused on just Biden’s age or mental acuity but not Trump's while only 6% — 2 articles — were focused on just Trump's. 16% of articles were focused on both candidates' ages or mental acuities.” www.mediamatters.org/washington-p...
President Biden's age "may be nothing but a number," our critic Jason Farago writes. "But the perception of his age has become desperately entangled with cultural connotations of elderliness, formed over centuries, handed down to us through religion and literature and art."
