Donald Trump by no means will get any credit score for granting broad entry to the press. Workforce Biden was by no means blamed for avoiding them. That is as a result of journalists do not care about their very own entry. They care in regards to the Democrats successful. They’re partisan staff gamers, not nonpartisan watchdogs.
This week’s Exhibit A, dropped at us by Jorge Bonilla, was CNN’s Scott Jennings thwacking Brian Stelter. He stated, “The Biden administration handled the press as poorly as any president has ever handled them, gave them much less entry, answered no questions, no transparency at any given time. Donald Trump has answered extra questions in three weeks than Joe Biden answered in 4 years.”
“That is not true,” Stelter protested. “And in addition lots of the solutions will not be true and correct.”
Later, Stelter responded to Jorge Bonilla’s tweet with this: “As a result of it is not attainable. Clearly Biden did not maintain practically as many Q&As as Trump does. However over the course of 4 years, Biden fielded hundreds of questions.” He did? How do we all know? Why ought to we settle for a guesstimate?
Jennings is likely to be exaggerating on the uncooked numbers, perhaps. However he’s not fallacious on the large image. Biden averaged 9 pressers a 12 months, and that’s partially as a result of he had 4 in 2024 plus the primary 3 weeks of 2025. He vanished from scrutiny.
We famous earlier than than Reagan Reese on the Every day Caller discovered President Biden took simply six questions from the White Home press corps throughout his first week in workplace — and a few of these have been answered with only one phrase. Comparatively, the Every day Caller’s evaluation exhibits that Trump surpassed that quantity simply a number of hours after being sworn in as he took 75 whole questions and follow-ups over a 48-minute interval within the Oval Workplace whereas signing govt orders. He took questions from the press 11 instances throughout his first week in workplace — greater than Biden took in his final 12 months.
Now the opposite apparent level right here is the Distinction in Angle of the press. Even when Biden took questions, they have been a lot gentler than the ferocious grilling Trump would obtain. Trump fended off offended crusades like Screaming Jim Acosta. Biden was handled with child gloves, and that’s saying it mildly. The identical goes for interviews with the networks. We’d throw Erin Burnett’s soft-serve vanilla cone interview with Biden from final spring at Stelter. The questions Republicans get are a lot more durable, after which the reporters really feel like they must comply with up with the so-called Truth Examine. Erin Burnett wasn’t going to fact-check Biden as he mangled his file on inflation.
There was one other second on CNN that shouldn’t be missed, and that’s when Anderson Cooper bought upset with former New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, who we recall backed Nikki Haley final 12 months, not Trump. When Sununu gave him some GOP lip, Cooper instructed him “don’t be a dick.” He shortly retreated and apologized. Nevertheless it tells you simply how a lot tolerance they’ve. Sununu was needling Cooper about how a lot FEMA was spending on unlawful immigrants. This can be a matter they don’t wish to focus on. In any respect. They name themselves the Information networks, however some bits of stories they wish to strangle to dying, by no means to be heard from. That’s why they’ve a belief drawback.
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