President Biden told members of the press on Thursday, “You all have a really tough job,” especially with the “exceedingly small number of people watching mainstream television and reading the newspapers.”
During the Thanksgiving photo op at the Nantucket Fire Department in Nantucket, Massachusetts, he cited a recent study that showed that only 35% of people who responded are happy with the direction of the country.
“This is not a criticism of the press,” Biden continued. “[But] when you turn on the television, you don’t see a lot of good news, even stuff that is good news doesn’t seem to sell very well. And so when you turn on TV, everything looks bad.