The media, meanwhile, has him on the record answering questions. He can get his ideas out there and try to defend them, after all, and everyone’s covering it.
But they are effective, for both the media and the president. The scoop is the holy grail of journalism, and you’ll never get one when everyone else is getting the same answers you are. Press conferences are not ideal for journalists. The president should answer tough questions, real questions from real journalists, not simply sit for partisan exercises in image burnishing, like Sean Hannity's 2020 Super Bowl interview with Trump. There are a lot of reasons why, some of which are the age-old ones: The president of the United States should be held accountable for his words and actions in front of the American people. This would include reporters shouting questions as he was walking to his helicopter, say, or answering a few questions after a statement or speech. According to AP, Biden had 216 informal interviews in his first year. Indeed he does, and there are numbers for that, too. She has pointed out many times that Biden often answers questions informally. White House press secretary Jen Psaki is probably one of them. And George Bush, in 1989 - before Fox News and MSNBC were around - held 31 press conferences and gave 46 interviews. Granted, it’s the middle of January, and it's not the end of the world if he doesn't pop up in front of reporters to answer questions five times a month.īarack Obama held 27 press conferences and gave 156 interviews his first year in office. This will be Biden’s first press conference of 2022. That means they think it's a big deal.Īnd it is. The nightly news anchors for ABC, CBS and NBC will lead special coverage. Man bites dog, on the other hand - and this is more of the latter than the former. Dog bites man isn’t a story, as they say. Cable and broadcast networks will carry it live, if only for the novelty. That’s one definition of news, right? Something new? Whether you support him, you can’t dispute that formal press conferences, specifically set up as a question-and-answer session with reporters, are a rare occasion for Biden, more so than his most recent predecessors.īiden is scheduled to give a formal news conference at 2 p.m. With the genuine curiosity of seeing something that doesn’t happen too often.
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