President Joe Biden’s calmness under fire seems to NOT make good media headlines….
Donald Trump’s chaos DID….
A Washington Post Op-Ed….
“ … Biden dithers …”
“Biden tries to calm nerves about 2024.”
“The case for why Biden is screwed.”
Even the extraordinary news that jobless claims had dropped to the lowest level in 52 years came with a qualifier: “BUT, BUT, BUT …don’t expect [the numbers] to immediately change Americans’ negative perceptions of the economy.”
It isn’t just Politico. My impression of other outlets’ coverage of President Biden had been much the same: unrelentingly negative. Was it my imagination?
No, it wasn’t.
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After a honeymoon of slightly positive coverage in the first three months of the year, Biden’s press for the past four months has been as bad as — and for a time worse than — the coverage Trump received for the same four months of 2020.
He and the media were always quite an odd coupling.
President Biden is an essentially decent person. No one ever says the same of people like Chris Cuomo and Katy Tur, among the vast array of washed up wannabes who couldn’t make it in Hollywood.
The Biden Boom
Robert Shapiro: “While many people are uncomfortable communicating bad news, Democrats have a problem these days talking about good news, especially on the economy.”
“Based on the data, President Biden and the Democratic Congress are set to preside over the strongest two-year performance on growth, jobs, and income in decades—so long as the current cycle of inflation eases, and the Omicron variant does not trigger another round of shutdowns. The future paths of inflation and the pandemic are large and important unknowns—but if they break right, everything else points to a Biden boom through 2022.”
The Hill is out with a piece that points to Biden admin finding fault with its coverage in the media….
The Biden White House, plagued by low approval ratings that have weakened the president’s clout and raised fears among Democrats over next year’s midterm elections, is blaming the media for some of its problems.
Administration officials are increasingly pointing the finger at the press, saying news organizations are unfairly covering the White House and contributing to Biden’s tenuous public standing nearly a year into his presidency.
Multiple White House officials recently shared a Washington Post column published with the headline: “The media treats Biden as badly as — or worse than — Trump. Here’s proof.”…
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Joe Biden loosen’s up and goes to some entertainment to shore up his numbers maybe?
(CNN)For the first time as president, Joe Biden is set to appear on late-night TV, with a guest appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s “The Tonight Show.”
The appearance, the first of any sitting president on a late night show since Barack Obama in 2016, comes as Biden finds himself beset on all sides by struggles.
The Consumer Price Index rose to 6.8% in November, the highest it has been since 1982, as extended inflation worries plague the economy. Biden’s approval rating is mired in the low 40s, and Democratic retirements are soaring amid concerns that the 2022 midterm elections will be a political bloodbath for the President’s party.
Biden’s appearance also comes amid criticism that he remains largely walled-off from the White House press corps, having granted far fewer interviews so far than either Obama or Donald Trump…
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