 It can be tricky to report on something as difficult to define as a president person aging when his opponent is a convicted felon who regularly lies and has threatened to use the government to go after his political opponents. Still, some reporters said the press corps could have done a better job covering Biden's physical and mental state. The failure of the media, one White House reporter said, was not pushing more aggressively into Biden's abilities after the release of the Robert Herr report in February, which called Biden a, quote, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.