The Washington Post has revealed that President Joe Biden has only sat down for one interview with a daily news print outlet since winning the presidency.
Additionally, the President has only held 13 one-man press conferences and 17 joint, most of which were extremely limited in questioning.
“He has also participated in the fewest interviews, 74, of any chief executive since Ronald Reagan,” the Washington Post reported.
“The President headlines multiple events every week on the issues that matter most to hardworking Americans that are attended by national, regional and constituency media, has held more than 450 question and answer sessions with reporters (more than any recent President), interviews with traditional media outlets from the television news networks,” the White House pressed.
Political commentator Diane Canada said Biden has opted for “safe” interviews since, “the less he says, the better.”
“The fact that Biden only does ‘safe’ interviews, and very few of them at that, is his life support for his failed Presidency. The less he says, the better. If he can be seen in ‘just’ the right lighting, with ‘just’ the right interviewer, with ‘just’ the right approach to the topic, it upholds the facade ‘just’ enough to allow Democrats to say, ‘see, he’s very Presidential.'”
“Unfortunately, the rest of the country, especially suburban women, aren’t buying it. This is Weekend At Bernie’s and everybody knows it,” she concluded.
Democratic consultant Domonique James is supportive of Biden’s move, saying, “At this stage in the campaign cycle, I’m not concerned about Biden’s limited 1:1 interviews.”
“I think it’s a smart strategy to communicate key messages, particularly to young voters and other communities that lean digital-first. Trust in traditional news and media outlets is at record lows while influencer and relational marketing remains healthy and effective, so the campaign has updated its ‘media playbook’ accordingly.”
“After the GOP nominee is officially selected, Biden and other surrogates should recalibrate to pursue all media avenues, especially if it is a Biden-Trump rematch. Trump understands better than most — if they are talking about me, they aren’t talking about you!”
“They pretty much made it clear that I don’t think they – they see that they may be meeting that standard by putting the president up for interviews with, I would say, friendly talk show hosts and maybe getting their message out on social media,” Zolan Kanno-Youngs of the New York Times said.
“I think there’s still value in putting a president up against a reporter from any of our outlets. And if you don’t, you know, if you create a void of information, other people are going to fill it with their assumptions, which I think is factored in a bit into questions over whether this is actually a strategy, whether this is potentially protecting him away from reporters,” he added.
“For a gaffe-prone president who sounds like he’s mangling or mumbling his words, less may be more,” George Washington University media professor Frank Sesno said. “Controlling his access is advantageous.”
“What it shows is that Biden should always be judged on his actions and not his words. TikTok Is a spy application for the Chinese Communist Party. State and federal employees are increasingly being banned for using it for good reason. But the president is polling so poorly among young voters… He’s ignoring all of this, and using it in a desperate attempt to gain votes instead,” said Fox News’ Joe Concha.
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