In a year-end review, Fox News media reporter Joseph Wulfsohn underlined that 2023 was another year in which President Biden largely avoided solo press conferences (three!) and serious newsmaker interviews. He ended the year on a podcast with comedian Conan O’Brien, not with a press conference or a hard-hitting journalist one-on-one.
Biden promised he would be kinder to the press than Trump, but that has only meant he hasn’t trashed them as “fake news,” and why would he? They’re all in his corner. But he doesn’t grant access unless an interviewer demonstrates they won’t be “trouble.” Interviewers have mostly skipped asking Hunter Biden questions.
In February, instead of a traditional Super Bowl interview with Fox — the White House even said no to actress Vivica A. Fox on “Fox Soul”! — he talked before the game to sympathetic PBS NewsHour host Judy…
