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4 reasons no president should want to give a press conference

  • Written by David E. Clementson, Assistant Professor in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia
imageA president's reputation is safer when he's in the Oval Office rather than giving a press conference.Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

By mid-March 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden had not given a press conference since his inauguration – the longest that a new president has gone without holding a press conference in 100 years.

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