White House holds secret meetings with news organizations and Washington Post columnist goes on CNN to claim that president is being treated WORSE than Trump by press
- The Washington Post on December 3 published an op ed by columnist Dana Milbank entitled: ‘The media treats Biden as badly as — or worse than — Trump’
- The column sparked questions about media coverage of Biden, and on Monday Milbank appeared on CNN to argue that Biden was being treated unfairly
- On Tuesday evening it emerged that the White House had dispatched a team of three people to speak to newsrooms and encourage more favorable coverage
- The three – NEC Deputy Directors David Kamin and Bharat Ramamurti, along with Ports Envoy John Porcari – have embarked on a PR campaign, CNN reported
- Some on social media agreed that coverage of Biden was unfair and the news organizations were just hunting for sensationalism, but others laughed it off