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As Donald Trump travels from one state to another and is greeted by a very critical press, Biden has spent several days in Delaware preparing for Thursday’s debate. One of the few questions you’ve answered recently is which shake you like best.
Today’s Question to Joe Biden: Have you covered this week because you don’t want to answer anything but shake-related questions? asks New York Times reporter Jonathan Martin on Twitter.
He is supported by several journalists, including Richard Benedetto, a former White House correspondent for USA Today.
Bays away from Ukraine
Biden has come under heavy pressure from Republicans over a series of accusations about his son Hunter’s involvement in Ukraine. But Biden hasn’t received many questions about this case, and the few that have been asked have been quickly fired.
The 77-year-old has not been available for months, less than any presidential candidate in a long time. Officially, the coronavirus is the cause, but Benedetto is not sure.
– If I was a candidate and understood that I could get away with it without having to answer too many questions, and it worked, why not stick with it?
– much smoother
He thinks American journalists are too soft on Biden.
– If all the reporters covering Biden had said that Biden avoids us, it would have been a mantra and people would have understood what is happening. But if no one says it, no one will know, says Benedetto, who is now a professor at American University in Washington.
The AFP news agency also points to the difference in the questions Trump and Biden received when they participated in televised interviews last week. Trump was questioned by NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, while many analysts believe that Biden found it much easier when he was interviewed by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, who previously worked for Bill Clinton.
– The questions Biden received were much softer than those received by Trump. There’s no question about that, says Benedetto.
Grant Reheer, a professor at Syracuse University, believes the question is not whether journalists are too soft on Biden, but whether they are too tough on Trump.
– In coverage of Biden, it often seems like the media cheers him on, says Reheer.
Apples and oranges
Others believe that it is natural for the two candidates to be covered in different ways.
– It’s like comparing apples and oranges. When you have a candidate who calls the press an enemy and advocates violence against journalists, refuses to answer specific questions, and comes up with lie after lie, it’s wrong to compare the coverage of the two, says Gabriel Kahn, professor of journalism. . at the University of South Carolina.
Dan Froomkim, editor of the independent website Press Watch, previously said it would be an oversight to cover Biden in the same way as Trump, but it comes with an admission.
– In a normal election year, the problems facing Biden would have received much more media coverage than now, he says.
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