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The President's Twitter Feed

 "Before I took office, I promised I help was the on the way. Just three months in, I'm proud to..." blah blah blah...

"Here's the deal: Wall Street didn't build this country..." blah blah blah...

Several weeks in Joe Biden's presidency, we have now come to terms with a crucial fact - The President's twitter feed no longer makes news.



I don't mean this as a criticism of President Biden. Rather, I simply mean to point out that gone are the days of the news cycle relying so heavily upon the Twitter feed of one man. For nearly four years, political reporters needed only to head to Twitter.com to hunt down their latest story, because the chances were good that Trump had just tweeted it out for them. Now, journalists who became dependent on this method are having to get creative, because as you can see from the sample above, Biden's tweets are simply not newsworthy. They are your typical, professional tweets that we came to know in the Obama years, and while I don't mean to imply that one way is better than another, I do think it's quite clear that journalists have to rethink their strategy for Biden.

However, my initial feeling is that this is for the best, both for journalists and the general public. The chaos of the Trump twitter feed and the constant news cycle about whatever he most recently said was both draining and distracting. That is, distracting from the real issues facing the country. Now, forced to face Biden's comparatively "boring" personality, there is hope that reporting can return to the issues and solutions based style that serves real communities as opposed to the rabid following of one man's antics. 

To that point, it is yet to be seen how the media will preform. In Biden's one and only press conference so far, the most newsworthy statement came from a question about the 2024 election. It goes without saying that this was a failure, and that going forward, journalists will need to dig in their heels to get to the detail oriented issues reporting that can be of service to us all. But, for now, we can be assured that the news cycle will not have anything to do with "covfefe" or name-calling. 

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