That it took President Joe Biden being in office for 64 days before giving his first press briefing on March 25 turned out to be a sign of things to come for his administration, according to Amie Parnes’ article for The Hill, “Biden giving stiff-arm to press interviews.”

As Parnes wrote, “President Biden has only given 10 one-on-one press interviews since taking office in January, a low number that is drawing more attention toward the White House’s efforts to control and manage the way Biden interacts with reporters.

How bad is 10? It’s pretty bad.  His predecessor, Donald Trump, did more than 50 interviews through the summer of their first year in office, while Barack Obama, for whom Biden was vice president, did more than 113 interviews. Parnes cites tracking from Mark Knoller, a former White House correspondent for CBS News. Knoller started covering presidents during Gerald Ford’s administration.