On Friday night, I sallied forth from the foothills of Nazareth to the Slate Belt highlands to hear all kinds of people driving big-ass SUVs and trucks complain that a possible data center proposed in Upper Bethel Tp will ruin the environment. I'll have more about that later but wanted to write about something else first. Before leaving, I watched the beginning moments of the White House Correspondents' Dinner and saw numerous people who I had supposed were journalists posing for photos in tuxedos and fancy gowns on some makeshift red carpet as though they were Hollywood stars. Women's Wear Daily actually had photos of people who certainly seem to be a more than a bit out of touch with the real world.
Since that time, I've seen numerous stories poking President Trump because he insulted the press, which presidents are expected to do when they attend these fancy galas. I've seen others claiming that his jokes fell flat during his rambling and lengthy exhortation. I don't know how they could stay awake.
The whole thing disgusts me. It's a given that I find Trump is a boor, and that's putting it gently. But what really offends me is that the reporters who supposedly exist to speak truth to power instead cozy up to and are in an incestuous relationship with it.
You want to have a dinner to pat yourselves on the back? Knock yourselves out. But drop the tuxes and gowns. Stop acting like celebrities with agents who negotiate your contracts and start acting like reporters. Instead of braying about Epstein every five seconds, start covering the very obvious corruption going on inside the Beltway cesspool.
I think Trump's disastrous presidency is a big story. But the incompetence of the Washington press establishment appears to be a bigger story. Instead of covering the actual stories, they are too busy playing tit for tat with Trump.
Freedom of the press? What press?
4 comments:
You waited until now to gripe about this? You could have started with any President since the dinner was initiated. Good observations; you are absolutely correct about their failures as “reporters.” They wouldn’t know what a follow-up question was if it bit them in the arse.
What do you expect from the fake news.
It's all fun and games until a Republican is cracking the jokes. That's when it's time to be an old scold.
“Instead of covering the actual stories…”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That’s a good one.
The list of Democrat hoaxes created and amplified by the main stream ”press” is too long to print, as are the stories they ignore because it might harm the democrats.
I’d love to have had them skip the dinner to honestly cover stories like the fraud in Minnesota and California, or the growing evidence of illegals on our voting rolls. For just ONE day.
But the only thing they seem to understand about covering those type of stories is that they need to keep covering them up.
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