Is Joe Biden treating the press better than Donald Trump did? It’s a low bar to argue he doesn’t describe the media as “enemies of the people.” Is he really treating them as they view themselves – as representatives of the people? Or is he not interested in addressing the people? Are they all too negative?
Ben Smith at Semafor reported on the White House holiday party for journalists, described as a chance “to dispel his main problem with the U.S. media right now — the undercurrent of concern that he’s too old for the job. It was an opportunity to say, in some sense: Hey, you idiots, I may be old but I’m fine.”
Smith wrote that Biden made brief remarks at the East Wing party, “which began with the usual joke — I’m for a free press, even when you drive me crazy. But he then strayed into a couple of hazy monologues, which ended only…
