President Joe Biden has a love-hate relationship with the media: They love his administration, his policies, and his party, but his overly secretive administration rejects the openness necessary to let the public scrutinize his policies. As recent polls show, a growing number of Americans believe President Biden is implementing an unpopular agenda in a halting and incompetent manner.
So, although the Biden administration received less negative media coverage during its first 60 days than any president in the last three decades, the administration has cloistered the president away from the press and attempted to control the narrative through a number of easily identifiable tools. Here are five of them:
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