Want to influence Joe Biden? Run ads in a 100-year-old newspaper.

[brooklynite]

Politico

Interest groups trying to influence the president of the United States will often fork over millions of dollars in order to do so. During the Biden era, however, an old media-centric, less splashy technique has been deployed.

A handful of organizations with legislative interests before the government have taken to running print ads in Delaware’s The News Journal in an effort to get their message in front of the world’s most powerful individual, one who is likely the paper's most famous reader. A review of the paper found that 17 ads have been run by these groups between September and mid-November alone.

The ads’ messages range from calling on President Joe Biden to take action on renewable fuel policy, to imploring him to draw down the country's nuclear arsenal, to expressing gratitude that he preserved tribal cultural heritage sites in Utah. They often run alongside the paper’s more traditional ad content: print ads that urge local readers to buy a motorized scooter or hire a new local roofer.

The spots underscore how, when it comes to influence peddling, no stone is left unturned. They also reflect how Biden’s Delaware roots — and his commitment to going back to his home state regularly — have altered how those doing the influence peddling must think and operate.

Biden was known to read The News Journal during his tenure as vice president, and regularly fielded questions from the paper’s reporters on the 2020 campaign trail. That’s carried over, at least in part, to his time as president. POLITICO reported in May that the paper — which employs a few dozen reporters, has been in existence for more than 100 years and largely focuses on Delaware — was delivered to the White House and Biden’s Wilmington home.

[marble falls]

1. Unintentionaly a comedy piece. Does anyone really believe Joe's this shallow?

[brooklynite]

2. Where's the comedy?

Are organization placing ads in the paper? Yes.

Are they doing so on the assumption that the President will see them? Yes.

That's all the story is saying.

[SYFROYH]

4. Its a variation on all politics is local.

I like it.

[blm]

3. I think Dem groups should be running full page ads in

WV and Arizona papers pushing the high poll numbers for policies in Build Back Better that benefit working families.

[Cracklin Charlie]

5. I think it's great that we have such an experienced man as president.

Experience is knowledge. Knowledge is power.
He can read any damned thing he wants.

[Budi]

6. K & R I don't get the point of this article. Does Politico really believe the ads influence....

..the President of the US? He or his staff hears, sees, reads this same stuff everyday.
He has a qualified staff filtering thru the muck, (thank you Jen Psaki), their fingers well on the pusle of media vs agenda, before every news conference, his legislative leaders move his agenda regardless what the news ads say.

I see how the POLITICO article used this seemingly benign storyline to also push their own agenda deeper in the article.

As like many with roots to where they began, Joe Biden reads the local hometown Delaware newspaper for the same reasons we all do.

As for the ads 'reaching the ear of the President to influence his decisions', he's already heard it all by the time it reaches the local newspaper printshop.

Biden reads his local hometown paper for thee same reason others do.
Familiar names, business, obits, who's kid got married to who, etc.
It takes him back home.

I suppose Politico would also resort to 'reaching the ear of Joe Biden' via his Hometown paper, since I doubt the foreign RW billionare owned Politico or Politico Playbook is high on his list of reading material.

Politico is now under the managment of foreign owned billion $$$ corporate global RW for-profit media influencing.

Slick af manipulation. Profit driven.
Politico's not interested in influencing the President however, they're in it to influence with a negative biased agenda how the public thinks about the Democratic President, his VP, his staff, his policies, his Democratic leaders by his side, etc.