As a former journalist himself, President Kennedy may not have liked what the journalists were asking, but he certainly respected reporters, editors and the First Amendment. Thus, he encouraged the televised press conference.
"The fact of the matter is that the time when President Kennedy started televised press conferences there were only three or four newspapers in the entire United States that carried a full transcript of a presidential press conference. Therefore, what people read was a distillation... We thought that they should have the opportunity to see it in full."
—PIERRE SALINGER, PRESS SECRETARY TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY, JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW
Source: https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/john-f-kennedy-and-the-press
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