The left is beginning to turn against President Biden because of the lack of transparency regarding the crisis along the Mexican border, while other liberals are irritated that he did not give a formal press conference two months after taking office.
The Daily Beast quoted a “veteran White House correspondent” on Sunday who anonymously criticized the Biden government for not giving a formal press conference yet.
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“It’s a problem,” said the unidentified correspondent. “Who are we kidding here? More than two months without a press conference? Come on!”
The correspondent said the lack of availability was “pushing the limits on access and transparency” and accused Biden of “shirking” responsibilities.
“From a strategic point of view, it makes perfect sense, why would he want to be asked about his predecessor all the time? Or Hunter Biden? There will always be uncomfortable questions, no matter who is in charge,” continued the anonymous correspondent. “But there is a question of responsibility here that he is just dodging it completely. It’s very cute in half. It looks like they’re doing it because they think it confuses them with the message.
Left-wing CNN published an article on Monday with the headline, “Reporters call the Biden administration for lack of transparency on the US-Mexico border”, detailing journalists upset about the lack of access to cage structures that keep migrant children .
CNN has highlighted members of the mainstream media who are tired of the lack of access to Biden and the crisis along the border.
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“I photographed CBP under Bush, Obama and Trump, but now – zero access is granted to the media,” tweeted Getty Images special correspondent John Moore, who was among the comments highlighted by CNN. “I respectfully ask the US Customs and Border Protection to stop blocking media access to its border operations.”
The continuous flow of migrants on the southern border of the United States is growing so much that CNN’s Pamela Brown called the Biden administration for denying them access to air as well.
Brown examined the increase in migrants and overloaded Border Patrol facilities in one segment over the weekend, telling viewers that “as the situation on the US-Mexico border gets worse, the media is being kept out of it.”
The Radio Television Digital News Association also criticized the Biden administration for the situation.
“The lack of information and collaboration from the Border Patrol and the Department of Homeland Security has also created a vacuum of the kind that traditionally biased sources are filling with information that serves only their political interests. This dynamic does not lead to journalists’ efforts to impartially imparting information to the public is not even constructive for the heated dialogue of elected officials both locally and nationally, “wrote RTDNA’s executive director, Dan Shelley, in a letter to the administration demanding greater border patrol access for journalists.
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“At a time when the southern border of the United States is experiencing a historic increase in migrants, it is more important than ever that journalists have the necessary access to accurately and independently report the Border Patrol’s response to increased arrival of migrants and the well-being of people housed in the Border Patrol facilities, “added Shelley.
President Biden is due to hold his first formal press conference on Thursday afternoon, which will end the longest period a new president has gone without one in the past 100 years. The lack of transparency has emerged as a problem for people on both sides of the corridor.
The Washington Post’s far-left editorial board stated, “It’s past Biden’s time for a press conference” earlier this month.
“Avoiding press conferences should not become a regular habit for Biden. He is the president, and Americans have every right to expect him to regularly subject himself to substantial questioning,” wrote the Post’s editorial board.
Post media critic Erik Wemple noted that Biden often gives “short question and answer sessions”
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“These fragmented interactions are not equivalent to a formal solo press conference, something that Biden is now late to,” wrote Wemple.
Dom Calicchio and Yael Halon of Fox News contributed to this report.