By Curtis Houck
In a nearly 1,800-word piece posted Thursday afternoon at The New York Times website (but buried on A-16 of Saturday’s print edition), longtime White House reporter Michael Shear blasted the Biden administration for having “protect[ed]” the President through his first two years in office with only 54 interviews and the fewest press conferences in his first two years since Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan (who, as Shear would only note until paragraph 29 that Reagan’s count was due to him being shot).
Shear’s piece was likely at least partially inspired what’s been the occasional missile at a White House press briefing over the last two-plus years and, in particular, the April 11 briefing when the press corps slammed ever-inept Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre over the regime saying there wouldn’t be a press conference during Biden’s trip to Ireland and Northern Ireland.
The subhead said it all: “As President Biden prepares to announce his bid for a second term as soon as Tuesday, his decision to keep the news media at arm’s length is part of a deliberate strategy.” The print edition headline was muted: “Biden Is Historically Coy About Meeting the Press.”
Sure enough, the Ireland angle came up in the second sentence and a remark from Jean-Pierre three sentences later was from April 11.
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