The New York Post explained that Thursday’s “reporter revolt” came amid “mounting tension with the White House press corps over a recent dearth of meaningful access.” During Biden’s first two years in office, he “has given about half as many press conferences as his recent predecessors.” Biden also “lags in interviews,” per the Post, having granted less than a quarter as many as Donald Trump did at the same point in his presidency.

While Biden has participated in 375 informal question-and-answer sessions—more than Trump, Obama, or Bush—”they often are extremely brief engagements that can feature as little as a single-word reply before the commander-in-chief walks away,” the Post observed.

[The Free Beacon has a helpful graphic at the link. It’s interesting to see how close Biden comes to George W. Bush’s numbers (while still trailing); I recall complaints from the White House press over lack of access. Funny we don’t hear too much about that these days, at least until the past few days. — Ed]