Friday 26 March 2021

Biden wants to be president for eight years. Will the media be asleep by then?

Joe Biden has waited so long to be president he's not going to allow anyone to persuade him to step down after four years. He insisted during his very boring press conference at the White House on Thursday that he fuly intended to stick around for two terms. Unless something goes drastically wrong in the next four years, then it will Biden until 2028 by which time he will be 86. This is old but if he stays fit and mentally up-to-it there's no reason these days why a man of that age sbouldn't be president of the US. But judging by his first press conference most of the media will be asleep by then because there really wasn't much spark throughout the session with the White House press corps. That's partly to do with their tedious, uninspiring, longwinded questions but also because Biden seems to have taken a whole bunch of written answers to the podium and just read them out. If he does that a lot then future press conferences will likewise get no interesting answers. He didn't take umbrage with any of the ten reporters who were allowed to ask questions. But then every question was boring, longwinded and easy to answer. Perhaps we all got so entertained by the Donald Trump press conferences where he finger-pointed any reporter who asked tough questions or literally got them banned from attending future media sessions that anything low key like the Biden inaugural press conference just doesn't compare for fun and excitement. There is no question that the Biden administration will get on with the job of governing without upsetting a helluva lot of people and that's good for everyone. But it won't be so interesting as the four years with Trump on the rostrum.

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