Reporters and columnists from pro-Biden news outlets are very slow to lament Team Biden’s strategy to keep the president away from almost all interviewers and shun press conferences. Fox News media reporter Joseph Wulfsohn reported on Sunday morning that New York Times White House reporter Zolan Kanno-Youngs — a regular TV presence on shows like CNN’s Inside Politics — complained at the liberal Texas Tribune Festival in Austin that the president is limited to “friendly talk show hosts.”
This is obvious. But they hesitate to admit it. They would never dream of punishing the president for it with rougher reporting.
Kanno-Youngs tiptoed around the point. He noted the Trump White House didn’t always have daily press briefings, and Team Biden tried to restore them. (Trump briefings were much rougher than the typical patty-cake with Karine Jean-Pierre. For example, no reporter ever asserted Biden killed tens of thousands of people with Covid.)
Biden may have a “different measure” when it comes to transparency, he said, but he assert …