Yea?
What are you guys gonna do about it?
The Hill has the piece on the situation which actually isn’t something new with President’s and the media….
But?
It IS worse for Joe Biden…..
He’s runningBiden against a Big as Life Entertainer…..
And yea….
Ex-Senator and ex-President Biden has been NO MATCH….
First….
Joe Biden spend a decades in Congress a-place where you share the spotlight with over 400 others…..
Then?
He spend Eight years as Vice President another behind the scenes job….
From where I sit?
I see an old timer that actually does a good job as a chief executive , BUT STILL acts like the guy in the crowd…
The media NEEDS to be fed…
Biden and & Co. KNOW this….
But Biden does NOT want to be in front of camera and his handlers do NOT want him there either
Donald Trump LOVES the camera , crowds and the media….
NOT Biden…
It costing the President who the Hill points out is annoyed and frustrated…
Why Mr President?
No media availability
No formal press conference’s
No sit down’s with news anchors…
Invisibility ?
Yup….
Why?
We ALL know this….
The Senator/VP back ground thing….
81 years old….
Flubs and gaffs…
Stuttering….
Stop being a Senator …You’re the President now….
I don’t know if Joe Biden can do that…..
Democrats have been sensitive to media coverage of former President Trump compared with that of their own candidates dating back to the 2016 campaign, when critics argued the press overhyped the controversy around then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s private email server while giving Trump significant, unfiltered airtime.
Now, some Biden allies see a similar pattern playing out in which reporters fixate on the president’s periodic verbal slips and questions about his age while his likely November opponent faces dozens of felonies and suggests he would undermine international alliances and crackdown on immigrants and abortion access….
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The campaign sent out a press release criticising The New York Times for “quibbling over” Biden’s statements about the economy, and several Democrats rolled their eyes at a Times headline on Biden’s efforts to forgive student loan debt that described the president as “beleaguered,” only for it to be changed hours later.
“Beleaguered Biden wins second term, luckily saved by greatest job market in history and the happenstance of the strongest economic legislative record in 70 years, which by the way was in no way related to that job market. But how long can the lucky streak last?” Jesse Lee, a former Biden White House adviser, wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter…
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Biden has appeared before the press less frequently than his predecessor, according to research from the American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Biden has averaged 11 news conferences per year, while Trump averaged 22. Before him, President Obama averaged 20 per year.
But Biden’s administration has worked to build a press relationship in stark contrast to Trump’s, which was characterized by confrontation and attacks against the “fake news” media, Belt said — and the incumbent’s camp has likely shied away from aggressive criticism of White House coverage for that reason, hoping to avoid comparisons…
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“No president likes to be criticized or reported on or have any negatives written about them,” said Leonard Steinhorn, a professor of public communication at American University.
Steinhorn noted that Trump and his camp were trying to paint Biden as too old back in 2020 — but that Trump, who at 77 is his rival’s junior by just a few years, is now as old as Biden was during the last cycle. Trump has faced scrutiny for some of his own recent gaffes, including when he mixed up former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and his GOP primary rival, Nikki Haley.
Biden has also been open about his speech impediment and has long made gaffes that may be more a product of his stutter than of his age. Trump’s speech, by comparison, may appear more “fluid,” Steinhorn said, disadvantaging Biden in an arena where “optics tell a story, regardless of any words we communicate or what the White House wants us to believe.”
“Every president has to deal with it, but that doesn’t mean that the president should be silent and suck it up if they feel that they have been unfairly maligned or criticized.”….
image…AP News