Biden's "Press Conference"!

[Benton]

(03-25-2021, 08:06 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: And to anyone claiming that everyone needs notes or a teleprompter, IT WAS A PRESS CONFERENCE!  They're not supposed to have the answers written out beforehand!

Even if a person needs notes to refer to, they don't just read from pre-scripted answers!

Why do people think we're too stupid to know what's going on?  I guess that's the whole Democratic way of life, though.

Again, as someone who spent 20+ years in the press... I'd prefer they have an answer.

Here's a scenario: you're 30, still owe 20k in student loans and making waaaaaay less than you should. Your boss comes in and says "I need 30 inches on x subject. There's a press conference today. Use it as you base and fill in around whatever Press Conference Guy Says."

So you do some groundwork, spend an hour waiting on a conference (security, etc), sit through the other questions and finally it's your turn. You stand up and ask it, the guy stammers, looks through his notes and says "were working really hard on that issue. We will have more details later. Thanks for your question."

You're now an hour from deadline and boned.

You go back to your editor and say "man, what a curve ball. That guy is sooooooo unprepared and incompetent. Ha ha ha."

Then he hands you a box.

The majority of press conferences involve a prepared statement on a subject. It's usually followed by a question segment.