It wasn't though, outside of like Fox News and Newsmax. Blue MAGA and aligned media were claiming Biden was healthy as ever when it was evident his brain turned to pudding after about 4pm every day.
Both of their declines are masked by the media covering them reading rehearsed answers or off a teleprompter in their day-to-day coverage, instead of the rare moments they go off-script and can barely express a coherent thought before meandering to another topic.