When a reporter lobbed a softball at President Joe Biden, the president took the opportunity to demand further adulation from the media.
Biden on Dec. 23 fielded a question about how he feels about the economy in 2024, telling a reporter, “All good, take a look, start reporting it the right way.” The president, clearly unsatisfied with the slavish coverage of his presidency from legacy media outlets, called for help from his allies at NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times and The Washington Post, as if these outlets haven’t been spinning the news for Biden already.
Since the president chose to overlook the media’s zealous work on his behalf, here is a small collection of moments when the media tried to paint a brighter economic picture of the Biden presidency. For example, in June The Washington Post put out an article carrying water…
