As soon as the dinner of the White House reporters began, the online livestream C-span suddenly stopped. An onscreen legend indicated that the incident had already ended.
The stream eventually returned. But the seriously involved viewer may have responded to the C-span text: No jokeEugene Daniel, president of the White House correspondents, is “no president, no comedian,” historically both have been depicted. The result was an evening – which were not in the room – there was no such special purpose.
Daniels considered the island nature of dinner as a bonus; Returning to the stage, later, to present the award, he announced, “It’s just us as promised.” And perhaps probably rare to do this, but put a happy face on a remarkable absence: that President Donald Trump left dinner – traditionally a chami moment that once celebrates the freedom and curiosity of journalists and appears to raise moral questions as he breaks bread with his subjects – no meaningful surprise. He never participated in his first term, he was reported to be angry in the 2011 edition by both comedian Seth Mayors and the then President Barack Obama in the 2011 edition.
Cancellation of employed entertainment Amber rafin There was less hope. In the recent memory, the Creespondents Association has shown a significant reduction of backbones about a dinner, which was definitely simple to put in less controversial times. The group did not appoint a recreational after a year Michel Wolf The 2018 comedy set in which he brought both the officials and journalists of the Trump administration to coal. But Rafin’s firing, which looked like a new benchmark in the evening, completely hollow. In February this year, the organization’s head Daniels commented, “When I started thinking about what entertainer would be fit for the entertainer dinner this year, Amber was immediately at the top of my list.” This was probably due to accurate symptoms that was booted – the approach and its directness of sharpness. His firing immediately followed a podcast interview, in which he compared the Trump administration to “a group of killers”.
Lesson: Telling the truth for power is to be celebrated, unless it is. The organization gave control of the program to an invited guest who was not even in attendance. But to comment on the general absence of a comedian, Daniels in his initial comments did not comment on Rafin, who took a striking form of an award-show acceptance speech. Daniels credited and thanked all the people who supported him through a period, he said, one of the intensive professional stress. It was reliable, but it also felt that there was a lack of resonance at this moment – there was a challenge for Daniels beyond that moment.
This, for a long time of time, the only material from dinner was worth appearing: MSNBC’s broadcast gave time to a panel of commentators, which ran through a litni of points talking about Trump’s restoration of Trump. He gave some less time to reflect the glory of the past, as well, with a journalist who worked as a cater waiter on the dinner weekend of reporters, in the past, he said, in the past, the program was used for “all new food trends, all new linen trends”.
Leaving the hospitality angle – which was at least a few novels for MSNBC – completely on one side, the evening seemed to collapse herself from a TV angle. An incident that celebrates and celebrates, without working properly, went without work; An event that is to talk to service journalists, which provides to American people, began with a journalist’s long, at least-committed at least.
When the evening programming raised, various publishers of journalism (AB Philipp and NBC’s Christon Velkar) presented prizes to the members of the organization, whose work is reliable and whose spotlight in the spotlight, such as the concerned moment, was hearty. Under other circumstances, journalists who honored their colleagues and contestants have felt like unfair backscreaking. During one evening, during which it was “just we” because any person who appeared on the stage was either a hostile president or whose presence may have inspired him to speak at the nuclear, individual group members about the work he did to keep the powerful in mind.
If only the group honoring them, the idea of ​​keeping power in mind while planning a dinner. Rafin’s firing of WHCA was unfortunate, but by Daniels “just we” framing felt losely opposition – yes, it was really just speaking journalist, and Daniel was in an impossible position of building his own group. But the plan that was planned, uplift – and the absence of direct criticism that has been an identity of this incident for decades, is able to cover these journalists well for fear of the man – marking a low point for dinner, this year, it was in many ways before it started.
