{"id":1509175,"date":"2022-06-09T10:05:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T14:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1509175"},"modified":"2022-06-09T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T14:06:07","slug":"report-leak-says-biden-whines-about-bad-coverage-to-reporters-in-off-the-record-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-leak-says-biden-whines-about-bad-coverage-to-reporters-in-off-the-record-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Leak Says Biden Whines About Bad Coverage To Reporters In Off-The-Record Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-leak-says-biden-whines-about-bad-coverage-to-reporters-in-off-the-record-conversation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1509175&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden held an off-the-record conversation with journalists in which he mainly complained about their coverage, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent Air Force One trip, Biden dropped back into the media seating area to \u201ccriticize the quality and tenor of press coverage of his administration,\u201d Politico\u2019s West Wing Playbook <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/west-wing-playbook\/2022\/06\/08\/biden-to-media-be-better-00038244\">reported<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden doesn\u2019t do many off-the-record chats with reporters. So the traveling White House press corps was surprised and intrigued when the president dropped by Air Force One\u2019s press section for one such session with them during a recent trip to the West Coast,\u201d the left-leaning website reported. \u201cBut Biden wasn\u2019t just there to field questions. He had his own message to deliver. According to multiple people familiar with the off-the-record session, he used much of his time with reporters to criticize the quality and tenor of press coverage of his administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sessions present a conundrum for reporters. On Air Force One flights, there is only a single reporter from print media whose job is to report back to other reporters not on the president\u2019s plane exactly what went on. But an off-the-record session is never shared with those other reporters with the dual thought that, first, they may one day be fortunate enough to be in such a session and, second, because the president cannot speak candidly off-the-record if what he says is widely reported.<\/p>\n<p>But still, along with the print reporter, there are upwards of a dozen media members in such sessions, including TV, radio, and wire service reporters, as well as half a dozen photographers. It\u2019s not unusual for what the president said aboard Air Force One to leak out and make its way into the press. In fact, reporters who attend the off-the-record sessions will often relay the conversations to those who didn\u2019t, with the caveat that the president\u2019s comments remain off the record. That doesn\u2019t always happen.<\/p>\n<p>Biden hasn\u2019t done a sit down with a media outlet in 119 days. Instead, the president did a softball interview with late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Politico reported Biden \u201chasn\u2019t done a sit-down interview with The New York Times\u2019 or Washington Post\u2019s non-opinion sections since taking office, a departure from his former boss Barack Obama, who regularly gave one-on-ones to the Times during his first year. Biden has similarly shut out major wire services like The Associated Press and Reuters. Though he\u2019s given a handful of interviews to the major networks, he still hasn\u2019t conducted a one-on-one with CNN (though he\u2019s done several town hall appearances).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t think of a parallel situation \u2013 it\u2019s the fifth president I\u2019ve covered and the first one I haven\u2019t interviewed,\u201d Peter Baker, The Times\u2019 chief White House correspondent, told the outlet. \u201cThey feel neither the obligation nor the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden held an off-the-record conversation with journalists in which he mainly complained about their coverage, according to a new report. On a recent Air Force One trip, Biden dropped back into the media seating area to \u201ccriticize the quality and tenor of press coverage of his administration,\u201d Politico\u2019s West Wing Playbook reported Wednesday. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1509246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1509246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}