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Why Isn’t Amber Ruffin’s Firing From WHCD Job Prompting Outrage?
Amber Ruffin's firing as White House Correspondents' Dinner comedian is yet another example of an institution complying with White House demands
That reset has included remarkable use of what the White House perceives to be its power to control institutions via executive order, a development that has led major law firms and research universities (to say nothing of Congressional Democrats) to accede to Trump’s agenda. The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, for all that it has provided some genuinely consequential moments in our shared cultural history, has been critiqued for many years as vacuous, silly — the kind of party to which, in 2011, a reality-TV star would get an invitation. This would not seem to be a media class ready for the next three-plus years of life under a political regime determined to upend every norm; instead, as proven by the lack of outcry over Ruffin’s firing, they’re just like the rest of the populace, vaguely shell-shocked by the pace and magnitude of new mandates from the executive branch.
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