The White House Correspondents Associationn "looks forward to hosting our annual dinner this year as we do every year to celebrate the First Amendment, reward some of the finest reporting of the past year and recognize promising young student journalists," its president, Jeff Mason, said in a statement.
In terms of journalism, of expression, of voice, of fine reporting and superb writing, of a range of news, thoughts, views, perspectives, and opinions about places, worlds, and phenomena that I wouldn't otherwise have known about, there has never been an experimental moment like this.
Rather than add to the surfeit of fine reporting and analysis of the Trump tax plan, such as it is — it's "less than 200 words and contain[s] just seven numbers" — let me cherry-pick some items in the morning papers on the White House proposal announced Wednesday that you don't want to miss.
Unfortunately this story is true, a condensation of the fine reporting conducted by James Haggerty and Gary Fields of the Wall Street Journal about the death of David Kellermann, acting CFO of Freddie Mac.
As detailed in fine reporting by Craig Gustafson of The San Diego Union-Tribune, Fletcher was awarded an achievement medal with a Combat "V" for Valor.
Jo Wilding, a trainee lawyer and human rights worker in Iraq, produced some of the finest frontline reporting of the war online from Falluja, then under siege by the US Marines.
The most significant is the man pictured at the head of this fine report, the ever-entertaining Dustin Johnson.
Buddy the cockatiel is doing fine, reported Roberta Becker Ziegel, Vic's wife of 34 years.
The University Neighborhood Housing Program wrote a fine report: "Nowhere to Go, a Crisis of Affordability in the Bronx".
Anecdotally, viewpoints on the matter range from testimonies of "I drank through the whole of my pregnancy and my child turned out fine" to reports of bartenders refusing to serve alcohol to pregnant women.
