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Biden’s press office is plagued by negative coverage, blunders in the news, while the media signals that the “honeymoon is over”

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In recent weeks, the White House has been plagued by negative reports about President Biden’s press office, coinciding with a series of omissions in communications, and major news organizations that are usually Biden-friendly.

“It was most interesting to see how the media in the establishment is trying to correct its coverage of the Biden administration. The mainstream media helped cover Biden in the 2020 campaign and the first months of his administration, “Jeffrey McCall, a professor of journalism at DePauw University, told Fox. Digital news.

“But the media story that Biden is a unifier and that all national problems are just remnants of Trump just had to fall apart in the face of the cold reality,” McCall said. “Even the center-left media had to reluctantly admit that the Biden administration was fighting.

McCall believes media trust is “already pretty bleak” and Biden’s continued promotion has become unfeasible when opinion polls show Americans see the administration’s problems.

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“In a sense, the mainstream media has just understood what the public has known for months,” he said.

The White House has been plagued by drama in recent weeks as negative reports on President Biden’s press office coincided with a series of communication errors. (AP Photo / Susan Walsh)

New White House spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre has often stumbled since taking the podium last month when Jen Psaki left the administration. Irritated by a suspicious allegation made by the president during a speech to Navy graduation midshipmen last month, Jean-Pierre said he had “not heard” part of the speech and declined to defend Biden’s claim that he had been appointed to the academy. in 1965, the same year he graduated from the University of Delaware.

“I can’t talk about it at the moment,” Jean-Pierre said.

Jean-Pierre also has a reputation for reading scripted answers from her notebook that contradict Biden’s statements. Many reporters are already disappointed with Jean-Pierre, and NBC News reporter Kelly O’Donnell essentially told the spokeswoman how to do her job during a heated conversation last week about who informed Biden about the baby formula crisis.

“To say that there is no specific person is not a satisfactory answer. When you have senior presidential aides, there’s a paper trail, I’m sure, for briefings to the president. There is a domestic policy council. “There’s a boss. At some point we need to know who the person is most likely to talk to,” O’Donnell said.

Jean-Pierre continued to avoid the issue, and the NBC News reporter replied: “It just seems evasive” not to let senior White House officials out and admit that they informed the president about the shortage of formula.

“We are also trying to understand the flow of information in this White House, and it is important for us to get that answer, which is where we will keep asking until we get that answer,” O’Donnell said.

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New White House spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre has often stumbled since taking the podium last month from Jen Psaki. (AP)

Jean-Pierre declined to identify anyone who had discussed the issue with Biden, despite O’Donnell’s request. But O’Donnell isn’t the only reporter who seems annoyed by the new spokeswoman for her brief tenure, as Washington Post reporter Tyler Pager and CBS News’s Ed O’Keefe have had similar conversations with Jean-Pierre lately.

Others who think Jean-Pierre is having a hard start have cited her exchange last month with Fox News’s Peter Ducy on Biden’s tweet, which suggests higher taxes on wealthy corporations are the answer to fighting inflation.

McCall acknowledges that “trying to present a happy face to so many administrative problems” is a difficult task for Jean-Pierre, but it “comes out as excellent as it tries to rationalize policy failures.”

“Saying ‘I didn’t see that part of the speech’ or ‘I can’t talk to her’ just won’t cut it off from the press, which may finally wake up to its responsibility to scrutinize Biden’s White House,” McCall said.

The Biden administration is beginning preparations for a potentially brutal by-election, as Republicans are expected to reclaim the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate, but White House reports have been widely criticized in recent weeks. Biden officials have tried to blame rising inflation and gas prices for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine by pushing for a “rise in Putin’s price” narrative, although both became problems for the Biden administration months before the global conflict.

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Biden also recently uncovered a new insult to Republicans, calling them “ultra-MAGA,” a change in former President Trump’s slogan, “Make America Great Again.” The slogan was not very popular with Democrats, and some Republicans embraced the nickname – especially when Biden called Trump the “Great King MAGA.”

Five co-hosts Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Waters took turns scolding Biden for the wrong messages.

“You can’t burn someone with a ‘king’ nickname,” Waters said. “It’s like calling me a fox king. All right, I’ll take it.”

“Biden has so much difficulty communicating that even his nicknames, his slanders, are ineffective,” added co-host Geraldo Rivera.

The White House, meanwhile, initially claimed the new name was created by the president, but the Washington Post has since revealed it was the result of a six-month liberal-funded focus group project.

Last week alone, Biden was struck by a number of humiliating reports that shed light on the upheavals that erupted in the White House, followed by a report on Politico on Sunday night about White House fears that Jimmy Carter’s comparisons to Biden would “hold up.”

McCall finds it “interesting” that some recent media reports on the problems in the Biden administration focus on Biden’s concerns about the messages, “as if bad political decisions can be covered up with rhetorically wrong direction and a deft hand.”

“Some media apologists are also trying to point out that Biden’s problems are due to factors beyond the president’s control. This, of course, is true to some extent, but the president is not just a victim of circumstances and should not be presented as a helpless participant. It seems that such a presentation of Biden as a victim of circumstances will weaken him even more in the public sphere, “McCall said.

NBC News published a report on the upheavals at the Biden White House. (Fox News)

NBC News kicked off the negative stories on Tuesday morning after a long weekend of Remembrance Day with a report titled “Inside Biden’s White House,” which tells readers: The president’s lately is that he just can’t take a break – and that anxiety is spreading at his party. “

NBC News began its report by noting that Biden has pressured assistants to do a better job with communications.

“Faced with deteriorating political hardship, President Joe Biden is pushing for helpers for a more compelling message and sharper strategy, while shivering at how they have tried to stifle the common man, who has long been one of his most powerful assets.” NBC News. “Biden is shaken by his declining approval ratings and is seeking to regain the confidence of voters that he can secure the confident leadership he promised during the campaign,” said people close to the president.

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The report lists the crises that have “accumulated” to make Biden’s White House look flat-footed from rising inflation, high gas prices, the rise in COVID cases to the mass shootings of recent weeks. “Democratic leaders are puzzled as to how he can revive his prospects by November,” as Republicans are expected to ride a red wave in the midterm elections. NBC News has even speculated that there could be a potential White House shake, as rumors of Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klein, could leave the administration after the interim term, and Biden’s adviser, Anita Dunn, could rise to succeed him.

CNN’s Jake Tapper also used the term “flat foot” on Sunday as he questioned Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo for looking unprepared for inflation and formula crises.

“We are talking about two critical issues that directly affect the American people where they live. Where the Biden administration seems to have been caught in the act of inflation and baby formula, not to mention the record gas prices that have been affected by the war in Ukraine, no doubt, but that’s not the only reason they are so high, “Tapper told The State of the Union.

A Politico article on Sunday also portrayed Biden as frustrated and the West Wing as internally pointing fingers at his poor election results.

Hours after the NBC News report, the Washington Post published an article entitled “The White House Fights Inflation After Biden Complains to Assistants,” which claims that Biden “is privately annoyed that [the] the administration is not doing enough to show concern about high prices. “

“The White House took a new push on Tuesday to limit the political damage caused by inflation after President Biden complained for weeks to his aides that his administration was not doing enough to explain publicly the fastest price increase of approx. four decades, “The Post reported. which appeared …