I like to hear announcements from people's mouths, live. [View all]

I like to hear announcements from people's mouths, live.

Perhaps I am just showing my age.
But I don't like the recent practice of using statements to the press as announcements. Politics now depends on platforms such as X and Facebook to distribute these press announcements. Social Media is not the press. In fact, they are part of the problem.

Something this big should be announced live. If Joe Biden is too sick from COVID etc to speak live, then there is plenty of precedent to have had Jill Biden or another person close to Joe make the announcement.

I read that RFK is making a live announcement at 5 PM EDT.
He should not be the first (or one of the first) people to be speaking live.

I feel that this process is all so incredibly backwards.
The only part that makes any sense to me is that this was not announced until the RNC was over.