The press room, the rose garden, these are all places that Chuck Todd is very familiar with. He's NBC's White House correspondent and head of political reporting. For political reporting, entering and leaving the White House is a must, and reporters stationed in the White House have also become a group of people closest to American political news.
When it comes to reporters covering the White House, I have to talk about the long-standing White House Correspondents Association (WHCA). The White House Reporting Association was established in 1914, the year rumored that Congress would decide which reporters were eligible to participate in President Wilson's press conferences, and the association was created through the combined efforts of 11 reporters and served as a media response to the news. response to the rumor.
As can be seen on its official website, the membership requirements are that the reporter should be an editorial staff member of a newspaper, website, radio station, TV station or other media that continuously reports on the White House news, and his main task is to report reporters' briefings. of all White House news, applicants must have permanent White House media interview credentials.
The White House Correspondents Association dinner is a major event for the association. The dinner, which began in 1920, is attended by the president and first lady every year on the last Saturday in April, and three media awards are given out on that night. Although women were also eligible for membership in the association, the Journalists Association dinner was reserved for men until 1962, a situation that was eventually changed at the insistence of President Kennedy.
The banquet is becoming more and more a big show, with more and more Hollywood stars on the list, and each party's host - usually a popular talk show host - becomes the focus of pop culture , late-night talk show "The Colbert Report" host Stephen Colbert's performance at the 2007 dinner was the second most downloaded audio book on iTunes that week. If you search for the few Chinese reports about the "White House Correspondents Association", you will find that topics such as which celebrities are wearing what are often appearing on fashion channels are often eye-catching. Some media described the dinner as "announcing the winners, awarding prizes, and building a bridge between the media and the president." And the government will not miss this good opportunity to promote itself. Just at the 2011 Press Association dinner, Obama followed this occasion by clarifying the "birth certificate" issue that was so clamoring at the beginning of his speech.
Some people can't sit still. On April 29, 2007, just days after that year's dinner, an article in the New York Times "review page" filled the glitzy dinner with controversy. In a review titled "All the President's Press," the authors argued that the dinner was merely "an indication of how easily a propaganda-driven White House can woo Washington reporters to the show."
In fact, although this article is five years old, if you log on to the official website of the White House Correspondents Association now, you will understand why the White House Correspondents Association and the dinner are propaganda-oriented products in the eyes of Frank Leach. On the homepage and various columns, there are striking pictures of the president placed in the center of the page; from the perspective of content, except for the introduction of the organization and the person in charge, it is the instructions for joining the membership.
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