Should Biden drop out and the Dems have an open convention?

Trump is a train wreck, and the media loves it because when he's in the news, no one can look away.

Trump means ratings, and profits, and that's all media cares about.

It has been a very long time since news was just straight facts that you could depend on and trust.

Based on one debate performance, based on what the media says?  Here is Seth Abramson's latest.  It's a good read. I won't post the whole article as it's a paid subscription.  Edited:  The article is all free.  Here is the link:  x.com/ladyhawk2036/status/1810897165167784244

We Now Know What Really Happened in Atlanta
Media lied to voters about the cause of President Biden’s subpar debate performance. The lie—described here in full—is unforgivable, and was intended to chill discussion of Trump’s cognitive decline.
SETH ABRAMSON

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Summary
Here is what this new Proof report will show, with reliable major-media sourcing:
1. Just 120 days ago, Joe Biden had a full cognitive work-up which showed no abnormal results. Major media had access to this report beginning on March 1 and pretended it did not.

2. Prior to leaving for a long overseas trip in June, President Biden exhibited no cognitive behavior that is unusual for his age. Major media had confirmed this within hours or (at most) days of the Atlanta debate, and either failed to report it, buried it in longer articles intended to suggest something very different about the President of the United States, or else—sadly, this is what happened with most media outlets—continued to report the opposite of the truth to mislead readers.
3. During his trip overseas, President Biden was so committed to working hard for America that he ignored staffers’ advice about resting, undertook a schedule that major media now confirms would be deemed both physically and mentally “grueling” for a man half his age, and yet still exercised daily and came home to America to continue to work long hours. This wholly elective lack of necessary self-care, which to his credit Joe Biden has only blamed himself for since Atlanta, led to him (a) getting a bad cold, (b) needing to take daily afternoon naps, and (c) making several more gaffes than usual in the days immediately preceding Atlanta. His transient ill health was known to his team before the debate, but there was also, it now appears, a universal presumption—almost surely correct—that if it had tried to move the debate or to pre-but any poor performance with a revelation that the president was briefly in a bout of bad health very much of his own making, major media would have skewered him mercilessly. So Team Biden rolled the dice.
4. None of this impacted anything national security-related, either before or after the debate. In other words, the fear Americans are most likely to have about the cognitive abilities of any U.S. president or candidate for that job are unfounded—as least as to Joe Biden. As to Donald Trump, as we will see below, the fears are very much founded, and have nothing to do with a known cause like an overseas trip during which the man ignored staffers and worked far too hard and too long for a man of any age.
5. Since he got over his cold and got some rest, Joe Biden has been just fine. And that is according to everyone who works with him who’s spoken to major media about it. Moreover, major media has confirmed from countless sources that prior to going overseas in June the president was sharp as a tack, including and perhaps especially in national security briefings and national emergencies—making claims of a longstanding cover-up by MAGA voters and far-right ideologues laughable.
6. In contrast, Donald Trump has been in demonstrated cognitive decline over the last year, and there is no known explanation for it; indeed, the campaign has not even tried to explain it. In fact, the opposite has occurred. Trump and his team, in conjunction with major media, have worked to treat any discussion of this subject as verboten, even though it’s been all over independent media outlets—with video, audio, medical analyses, and more—for months if not more. At the time major media began harping on President Biden’s alleged cognitive decline, progressive dissatisfaction with the lack of coverage of Donald Trump’s cognitive decline had reached a fever pitch. The only way for major media to resolve the situation in its favor was to turn a one-night situation whose causes and implications it quickly understood to be (respectively) transient and virtually non-existent into a bigger story that would at once plump ratings, virtue-signal even-handedness, and put progressive critics back on their heels. It also would punish an administration major media feels angst toward because it’s been far worse for ratings and for subscription models than its incompetent, corrupt, spectacularly unprofessional predecessor.
So major media knew, in March 2024, from medical reports voluntarily released by the White House, that Joe Biden was in perfect cognitive health. It also confirmed this in offering universal praise for President Biden’s famously vigorous State of the Union address in March. That address was so powerful that the president’s enemies whined—falsely—that he must’ve been placed on performance-enhancing drugs to achieve it, a claim (still false) they would repeat just before the Atlanta debate, so sure were they and their allies in media that President Biden would again deliver a great performance.

Major media was not aware of any event having befallen President Biden that would explain him being in a different cognitive state as June 2024 began than he was in when he got his full cognitive work-up on February 28 or delivered his commanding State of the Union address a week later. Indeed, within a matter of hours after the Atlanta debate it knew, from dozens of sources with knowledge of President Biden’s work inside the White House, that nothing had changed in March, April, or May—Biden was sharp and focused in those months just as he had been at the State of the Union.
Major media knew that, beginning in June, the president had undertaken a schedule during a long trip to Europe that his staffers strongly advised against because it would had led to gross exhaustion—major media has explicitly confirmed—in a man half his age. Major media knew that the Biden’s lapses in Europe began as a result of this pre-forecast gross exhaustion, which had been brought on by a president overruling his staff to work harder for America than it would be wise for any president to be working.

Major media knew that, upon return from Europe, President Biden was suffering from exhaustion, a jet lag that wouldn’t go away, and—not surprisingly, soon thereafter—a cold that was so bad it was believed he might have COVID-19. Nevertheless, because President Biden is stubborn and a lifelong “happy warrior,” he insisted on debating Trump just as he’d insisted on keeping a self-avowedly unhealthy schedule in Europe that deprived him of sleep and even intermittent rest.
Major media knew that, ten minutes or so into the Atlanta debate, President Biden realized how poorly things were going and how ill his health was and pushed himself to improve in the final 80 minutes of the debate—which he did, albeit only marginally. Major media ignored this gradual improvement despite knowing most of its viewers were unaware of it, having turned off their televisions in disgust (at both candidates) only a matter of minutes into the Atlanta event.
Major media knew that, within days of the debate, dozens of sources had come out of the woodwork to tell it that the president was now doing fine and was as sharp as ever—information major media had already had confirmed to it simply by watching Biden rallies in North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, as well as interviews a now-rested Biden had conducted with both ABC News and MSNBC.

Major media knew, therefore, that there was no story here except a series of bad calls by a sitting President of the United States who was overworking himself for America.
So what did media do, faced with a ho-hum reality but a potential barnstorming lie?
It hid the medical reports it had, and instead pretended that eight trips a Parkinson’s specialist made to the White House in the last eight months—none of which trips had anything whatsoever to do with Joe Biden, but were instead about continued treatment for more than 1,200 patients who receive care via the White House Medical Unit—might in fact be part of an illicit conspiracy to treat the President of the United States for a major illness the reports it already had had already confirmed he wasn’t suffering from.
It told Americans that President Biden’s team’s claims that he had been suffering from exhaustion, jet lag, and a bad cold were all post-debate “spin”—despite every source it had spoken to saying that all of that was in fact true.
It hid flash polls showing that debate-watchers thought President Biden had won on substance, even as Trump won on style. It hid focus group results indicating that the debate hadn’t changed voters’ minds about either candidate. It hid post-debate polls showing that in certain national surveys Biden had gained on Mr. Trump both at the national level and in battleground states—particularly Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Georgia, all states Biden campaigned in following the debate. It offered viewers numerous reports it later had to retract about dissent within the party, from an imaginary meeting that was (never) held by Senator Mark Warner to an imaginary call for the president to retire that was (never) issued by Representative Ted Lieu; it treated grumbling by just nine congressional Democrats (out of 260 Democrats now in Congress) as a mandate, even as some of these nine had wavered in their convictions, and bolstered this paltry sum by featuring many former political advisers and former politicians giving their opinions on events in Washington they had no idea about; it selectively aired only clips of President Biden’s very weakest moments at the Atlanta debate, then selectively aired only a clip of his weakest moment at his North Carolina rally, then selectively aired only clips of his weakest moments from his ABC News interview, at no point telling viewers that by then it had learned the entirety of what happened in Atlanta and why (to include Biden having difficulty getting off the stage as a result of a previously publicly disclosed neuropathy in his feet that has nothing to do with cognition but is exacerbated by stress and exhaustion).
And it did all these things while in its twelfth month of ignoring indie-media reports establishing via video, audio, and eyewitness evidence that Donald Trump was and is in the midst of a significant cognitive decline.