{"id":901773,"date":"2021-10-20T11:58:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T15:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=901773"},"modified":"2021-10-20T11:58:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T15:58:56","slug":"the-media-is-finally-catching-on-to-bidens-basement-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-is-finally-catching-on-to-bidens-basement-act\/","title":{"rendered":"The Media Is Finally Catching On To Biden\u2019s Basement Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fthe-media-is-finally-catching-on-to-bidens-basement-act%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=901773&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--><div><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The media is finally taking notice of the current administration\u2019s aversion to letting the press speak directly with President Joe Biden, with the president taking nearly six times fewer interviews than former President Donald Trump by this time in his administration.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The press has been allowed to interview Biden in an extended one-on-one setting 10 times since Inauguration Day, compared to Trump\u2019s 57 times. Biden compares even worse to former President Barack Obama, who had done 131 extended interviews by this time in his administration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/west-wing-playbook\/2021\/10\/19\/why-bidens-not-doing-interviews-494771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"12.157434402332\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: at this point in 2009 and 2017, Obama had done 131 extensive interviews and Trump had participated in 57<\/p>\n<p>Biden has done just 10<\/p>\n<p>None since Labor Day and just 1 since May<\/p>\n<p>Our look at why Biden\u2019s not doing extensive 1 on 1\u2019s w\/ reporters <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pi3ol8Dt8P\">https:\/\/t.co\/pi3ol8Dt8P<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eA7pkZvnKN\">pic.twitter.com\/eA7pkZvnKN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexThomp\/status\/1450599948790214668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It has been nearly 100 days since Biden held a formal press conference, a fact the Republican Party has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOP\/status\/1450825885448343558\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pointed out<\/a> on Twitter. He also has yet to sit down with a reporter from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, or Reuters.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\" readability=\"12.246835443038\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cBiden has been especially wary of talking to print publications; he has yet to do an interview with reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, or Reuters,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexThomp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AlexThomp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TinaSfon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TinaSfon<\/a> note. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o9x13dU2Ub\">https:\/\/t.co\/o9x13dU2Ub<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddiamond\/status\/1450668662642380802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Keeping the president away from the media has been <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/03\/president-joe-biden-press-conference-solo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a go-to strategy<\/a> for Biden\u2019s team since he was on the campaign trail. The president went more than a week between Sept. 15 and 24 without taking a single question from the media in the wake of his much-criticized withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and in the midst of a resurgent border crisis.&nbsp; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/29\/biden-refuses-questions-afghanistan-fema-hurricane-ida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden Refuses To Answer Questions On Afghanistan, Says \u2018I\u2019m Not Supposed To Take Any Questions\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The dry spell culminated in a bilateral press conference with Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in which U.K. reporters were allowed questions, but American reporters were shouted down. White House Correspondents\u2019 Association (WHCA) President Steven Portnoy <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/21\/white-house-press-pool-demands-biden-press-conference-aides-shout-down-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">described the press reaction<\/a> in a pool report: \u201cThe entire editorial component of the US pool went immediately into Jen Psaki\u2019s office to register a formal complaint that no American reporters were recognized for questions in the president\u2019s Oval Office, and that wranglers loudly shouted over the president as he seemed to give an answer to Ed O\u2019Keefe\u2019s question about the situation at the southern border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House staff members have admitted they worry any time Biden appears before the press on camera, fearing he will make another gaffe or abandon his prepared remarks and go off on tangents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know people who habitually don\u2019t watch it live for that reason,\u201d \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/west-wing-playbook\/2021\/09\/07\/biden-anxiety-levels-494228\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one White House official\u200b told Politico<\/a>&nbsp;in September.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki indicated a similar sentiment earlier this year. When Biden does appear before the press, he nearly always comes armed with a list of pre-approved reporters to call on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of times we say, \u2018Don\u2019t take questions,\u2019\u201d Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/the-axe-files-with-david-axelrod\/ep-442-jen-psaki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told Democratic strategist David Axelrod<\/a> on his podcast in May.&nbsp; \u201cBut he\u2019s going to do what he wants to do because he\u2019s the president of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media is finally taking notice of the current administration\u2019s aversion to letting the press speak directly with President Joe Biden, with the president taking nearly six times fewer interviews &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901773","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}