Angry Joe: Biden Turns on News Media as Midterm Elections Loom
President Joe Biden is griping about his press coverage as he struggles to break through back-to-back negative news cycles before the 2022 midterm elections.
But complaining about the news media is unlikely to help Biden or congressional Democrats before November as Biden’s job approval numbers plummet into former President Donald Trump territory.
Biden campaigned, in part, to normalize press relations after his predecessor, Trump, slammed the news media as “the enemy of the people.” But public officials have the tendency to “lash out” at journalists and reporters when they encounter “political turbulence,” according to former Republican staffer-turned-Claremont McKenna College politics professor John Pitney.
“In most cases, the bad coverage is a symptom of their woes, not the cause,” Pitney told the Washington Examiner. (Read more from “Angry Joe: Biden Turns on News Media as Midterm Elections Loom” HERE)
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