Just as the White House correspondents’ dinner started, the live broadcast was stopped online. A legend on the screen indicated that the event has already finished.
The stream came back in the end. But the viewer who corresponds to critically may have responded to the text of C-SPAN: Don’t be joked. “There is no president, there is no comedy,” the head of the White House Representative Association, Eugene Daniels, announced the event that appeared historically both. The result was an evening – for those who are not in the room – does not serve any specific purpose at all.
Daniels deal with the isolated nature of dinner as a reward. Back to the theater, later, to present the prizes, announced, “as I promised, it’s only we.” Perhaps a little can be done, except that putting a happy face to a prominent absence: President Donald Trump has exceeded dinner – traditionally a very moment that celebrates the freedom of journalists and curiosity at once, and it seems that he may raise moral questions while breaking the bread with their citizens – was not a meaningful surprise. He never attended it during his first term, after it was reported that he was informed by Easter by both comedian Seth Mays and President Barack Obama at the time of 2011.
Canceling the planned artist Amber Roven It was less expected. In modern memory, the correspondent association showed a noticeable deficiency in the spine around a dinner, of course, the simplest of the most controversial times. The group did not employ an artist throughout the year after that Michelle Wolf 2018 Comedy collection that has experienced Trump administration officials and coal journalists. But the shooting of Roven, who completely took the evening, seemed to be a new standard. In February this year, the head of the organization Daniels commented: “When I started thinking about what the artist would be suitable for dinner this year, the amber was immediately at the top of my list.” This was supposed to be due to the exact features she obtained – directing the approach and intensity. She immediately followed a Bodcast interview in which the Trump administration compared “a kind of a group of killers.”
Lesson: Talking about the truth in power is to be celebrated, so that it is not. The organization waived the control of the program to a invited guest, not even in the audience. But for his announcement of the general absence of the comedian, Daniels did not make any comment on Roven in his opening notes, which took the amazing form of the acceptance of the prizes. He said that Daniels was attributing and thanked all the people who supported him during a while, he said, they were severe professional pressures. It was linked, but it seems that he also lacks an echo for a moment – then the aforementioned moment was a challenge to Daniels.
This was, for a long period of time, the only content of dinner is not worth showing at all: MSNBC’s broadcast of the event was waived to a committee of commentators who faced a set of talk points on how Trump has been restored so far. They spent a small amount of time to think about the glories of the past, with a journalist, in the past, as a waiter at the weekend of the correspondents, concerned, in previous years, the event was first used “all new food trends, and all new linen trends.”
He left the guesthouse – which was at least something a novel for MSNBC – completely aside, the evening seemed to collapse on himself from a TV angle. An event that is supposed to speak and speak without being appointed to do so specifically; An event aimed at speaking to the service provided by journalists to the American people, began with a long formulation of themselves.
When the evening programming was chosen, many stars were presented in the press (Abe Philip from CNN and Christine Wilker among them) prizes for the members of the organization, whose work was creditable and whose moments were in the spotlight, as they were. Journalists who honor their colleagues and competitors, under other circumstances, may feel like an unjustified return. In an evening during which he was “only” because anyone else may have appeared on the stage was either hostile president or a person whose presence might have caused him to walk in the nuclear group, and members of the individual group talk about the work they did for the strong account.
If the group that lies the idea of placing power is placed only while planning dinner. Whica’s release of Ruffin was unfortunate, but the “only” framing of Daniels felt honestly – yes, it was literally just journalists speaking, and Daniels was impossible to make his group. But the decision to be planned – and the absence of direct criticism that was a distinctive feature of this event for decades, for fear of the man who can cover these journalists well – represents a low point for dinner, this year, was in many ways before it started.
