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Inside The WHCA Dinner: With No Trump And No Comic, Correspondents Finally Get The Spotlight At Their Own Event
There was still the glitterati, but the mood was different.
That the spotlight this year was on award recipients, scholarship winners and a final speech from WHCA President Eugene Daniels is one of the better outcomes for the association, under attack from the Trump White House, determined to marginalize the mainstream media as biased and elitist. But he also would have seen awards given to mainstream outlets for their hard-hitting coverage of his nemesis Joe Biden, including an honor given to Axios’ Alex Thompson, whose reporting on the then-president’s cognitive decline “was impacting his ability to do his job,” in the eyes of judges. As he helped present awards to first responders at Tammy Haddad’s annual Garden Brunch, Jason Isaacs, coming off a wild season of White Lotus, quipped about taking a break from the non-stop selfie requests.
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