Less Press Conferences in last 2 years than the previous administrations
 (beginning with George W. Bush)


 comment posted to Philip DeFranco channel - video published 04/16/2019






Personally I found the press conferences in the last 2 years ranging from contentious to ridiculous. I do not miss them. Press conferences can be helpful as was said by a former press secretary in order to come to a consensus, so I guess my answer would be press conferences are important, just not in our reality. The President wishes to make his reality our reality by reducing explanations to the amount of characters determined by a particular type of social media, rather than be determined by the importance or relevance of that information. The reality of news (print, video, online) is changing which I am guessing is causing editors and publishers to become more anxious for clicks, subscribers and readers. They may send reporters out with a directive to secure a viral quote rather than effective information. When added together these two entities can cancel one another out. Zero is not a practical situation where crisis matched with an urgent need for a decision, appear daily.