Biden's "Press Conference"!

[Stonyhands]

(03-25-2021, 09:37 PM)Benton Wrote: 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.

Haha...except even with prepared questions, notes, and a sheet of reporters faces circled with written numbers so he knows the order of reporters to call on he still was unprepared and incompetent. When will you all stop kidding yourselves?