Yes, this is how the president of the United States is utilizing his time and energy during the twin crises of the greatest public health emergency in modern times and the worst economic calamity in many decades:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/us/politics/coronavirus-trump.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

If journalists know this is how Trump himself views the function of his briefings and that this is how woefully unprepared he is to inform the American people when he shows up at them, what on earth is the excuse for airing them in unadulterated form?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/us/politics/coronavirus-trump.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage