Chants of ‘shame on you' greet guests at White House correspondents' dinner shadowed by war in Gaza

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An election-year roast of President Biden at the annual White House correspondents' dinner butted up against public discord over the Israel-Hamas war.

Chants accused U.S. journalists of undercovering the war and misrepresenting it. “Western media we see you, and all the horrors that you hide,” crowds chanted at one point.

Other protesters lay sprawled motionless on the pavement, next to mock-ups of flak vests with “press” insignia. Kelly O’Donnell, president of the correspondents’ association, opened the event by reminding the audience of the important work that journalists do but noting that the dinner is happening at “a complex moment for our nation,” and in a decisive election year.

The president made a grim speech about what he believes is at stake this election, saying that another Trump administration would be even more harmful to America than his first term. “We have to take this serious — eight years ago we could have written it off as ‘Trump talk’ but not after January 6,” Biden told the audience, referring to the supporters of Trump who stormed the Capitol after Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 election.

More than two dozenjournalists in Gaza wrote a letter last week calling on their colleagues in Washington to boycott the dinner altogether.

 

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