CNN’s chief media correspondent, Brian Stelter, faces criticism from his interview with White House press secretary Jen Psaki about what the media gets “wrong” when covering the Biden administration.
“What does the press get wrong when covering Biden’s agenda? When you watch the news when you read the news, what do you think we get wrong?” Stelter said.
Psaki stated that many in the press corps appear to fail in recognizing how long the lawmaking process can be while reporting on the administration’s attempts to push the president’s plan through Congress.
“I think some of our muscles have atrophied a little bit over the last few years, and there isn’t a lot of memory, recent memory or longer memory, on how long it takes to get legislation forward or how messy the process of negotiating and the process of getting legislation across the finish line can be,” Psaki said.
The rest of the interview saw other questions that some could consider softball, which is why media personalities criticized the CNN host when clips of the interview began to circulate on social media.
“Beat me, Jen! Tell me how to be better,” journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote in one of a series of tweets. “Have I been a bad boy, Jen? I want to be a good boy,” he followed up in another tweet.
“Our corrupt media are absolutely nothing more than propagandists and should be treated as such,” Mollie Hemingway, senior editor of The Federalist and a Fox News contributor, tweeted.
Stelter would address the issue on Twitter regarding his interview with Psaki.
“My Twitter mentions right now: liberals mad because I asked @PressSec about why Biden won’t hold more press conferences. Conservatives enraged because I asked her, ‘what do you think we get wrong?'” Stelter tweeted.
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