The @nytimes reported what I've been flagging for years: https://twitter.com/digiphile/status/1377613303292248071?s=46&t=vFai0XEOcsyMEWGwWiT9dg
President @JoeBiden has held the fewest press conferences since Reagan.
As Leonhardt noted, @POTUS hasn't replaced pressers with town halls or interviews with papers: https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20230426&instance_id=91085&nl=the-morning&productCode=NN®i_id=54781483&segment_id=131375&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2F0a1e5a5a-9415-5ebe-a230-bc38f8ab8e1d
That’s not leading by the power of our example.
Last night’s WHCA (aka #NerdProm) was a huge missed opportunity to do more than poke fun at the lack of accessibility, transparency, & accountability.
@digiphile @nytimes According to Leonhardt's numbers in that article, Biden averaged about one press conference per month and one interview every two weeks. Not sure what the problem is unless you're a White House correspondent who wants to churn out more low effort articles.
@digiphile Not sure how you're calculating this since 21 press conferences in 24 months (two years) is about 1/month.
@twitskeptic source data here:
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/presidential-news-conferences
10.22 a year — but that’s including joint pressers. He’s had 11 solo pressers in total, over 2+ years.
@digiphile Well, if you use the those numbers Biden is 4/7 for solo pressers going back to Reagan and 2/4 for 21st century presidents. The problem here is that it's easy to spin these numbers to get the story you want.
@twitskeptic There’s informal questions, press conferences, & interviews with individuals, many of whom are not journalists.
He’s not averaging one presser a month.
Every original source finds he’s hosting the fewest since Reagan, has not sat with the papers, & is not replacing them with town halls.