This is an addition to an earlier post I made analyzing the most talked about people by the Trump admin's Press Secretary during official WH Press Briefings: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1l42cir/oc_white_house_press_briefings_name_drops/

This includes about the same time period in the Biden administration (with Press Secretary Jen Psaki). One caveat is that this includes 89 briefings as opposed to the 30 done by Trump's admin in the same time period. I opted to keep the time period the same as opposed to the number of press briefings.

The biggest discovery, I think, is that VP Harris was mentioned *significantly* more than VP Vance has been mentioned. What would have at the time been Former President Trump was mentioned 70 times during this time period vs. now Former President Biden who has been mentioned 139 times. If you were to sample the 89 pressers down to 30, I expect that number would shrink close to a factor of 3 if you prefer to think about it that way.

Posted by shinyro

7 comments

  1. Unfortunately this data is meaningless as it can’t control for the media’s behavior. It is indisputable at this point that the press is overwhelmingly left leaning and is more combative while questioning the Trump administration than it ever was with Biden or Obama.

    Hence why recent studies have shown only about one third of Americans believe the US media is honest, two thirds think they’re regularly willing to push false information to drive an ideological narrative.

  3. Oh lol, i read “name drops” like he would forget the name of a person and say instead their function. Wouldnt surprise me if a similar chart would come up

  4. “That’s because there’s no dirt on Trump, and plenty on the Biden Crime Family. Let’s go Brandon!”

  5. Trump press briefings mention biden on average of 4.6 times per briefing.
    Biden press briefings mention trump on average of 0.8 times per briefing.

    One side uses ‘trump derangement syndrome’ as an insult btw

  6. Your note at the bottom still has Rubio listed for SoS

  7. Why not compare Trump 1 vs. Biden 1 for the same amount of days or in total?
    You’re using very different data sets by going with the 2nd term of one POTUS vs. the 1st term of another.

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