White House Correspondents’ Association Edges Toward Irrelevance in Trump’s Second Term
The press corps threatens a ‘sit-in’ protest, in which members would return to their old seats and refuse to leave them.
The White House Correspondents’ Association was created by worried journalists in 1914 after President Wilson threatened to end all presidential news conferences, citing “certain evening newspapers” quoting remarks he had declared to be off the record. Eleven journalists signed the proclamation creating the association, including Ames Brown of The New York Sun.
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