Commentary To witness journalists handling President Joe Biden with kid gloves, and to recall how they approached President Donald Trump with fangs bared, is to realize just how thoroughly the old ethos of non-partisanship has collapsed. Reporters of an earlier era would be downright embarrassed and disgusted at the conduct of the current Fourth Estate—not because of the hostility to Trump, but for the indulgence of Biden. They were mostly Democrats back then, just as they are now, but they had a cross-party suspicion of anybody in power, liberal or conservative, and they were experienced enough to have seen manipulation and prevarication from both sides and maintain some degree of independence no matter where their political principles ran. Never be a flunky, never a toady, or a naïf or a chump, gullible and credulous, putting all the good guys on one side and the bad guys on the other … …