Joe Biden Laments Reporters Being Pressured To Build Up Their Own “Brand”
deadline.comJoe Biden sat down for a rare, in-studio live interview with A TV news outlet — MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace — and at one point started to lament changes in journalism. “Talking to a lot of reporters, they tell me — I have to be careful what I say — a number of reporters have indicated that there’s no editors anymore on what they do.
And I had one reporter tell me that, ‘You know, I am a reporter but I got one of my editors of newspaper came and said, ‘You don’t have a brand yet.’ A major newspaper.
They said, ‘Well, I am not an editorial writer.’ ‘But you need a brand so people will watch you, listening, because of what they think you are going to say.’ I just think there’s a lot changing.” Biden has previously commented on the changes in journalism.
He’s occasionally sparred with reporters, and this week shouted an emphatic “No” when asked by one New York Post correspondent whether he was with his son Hunter Biden in 2017 when he was sending “Chinese shakedown text messages.” Republicans claim that the text messages show Hunter Biden engaged in influence peddling and that his father may have been part of it as well.
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