BYWilliam Rivers Pitt,TruthoutPUBLISHEDMarch 30, 2021SHAREShare via FacebookShare via TwitterShare via Email

Last week’spress conferenceby President Joe Biden, his first since taking office, was a deliberate exercise in calm. It was not, unfortunately, a similarly deliberate exercise in fact-seeking. This was not entirely the fault of the president; the folks he shared that room with seemed to have lost the tether on their job description after four years of enforced mayhem.

The so-called cream of the Washington, D.C. press corps leaned into garish stories their phone algorithms appeared to tell them were important — the border situation and “Is the president senile?” — while failing…