The White House Correspondents Association quickly rebuked the WH

[HAB911]

“The W.H.C.A. board is protesting strongly against how today’s gaggle is being handled by the White House,” the association president, Jeff Mason, said in a statement. “We encourage the organizations that were allowed in to share the material with others in the press corps who were not. The board will be discussing this further with White House staff.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/us/politics/white-house-sean-spicer-briefing.html?emc=edit_na_20170224&nl=breaking-news&nlid=50533710&ref=cta&_r=0

[Squinch]

1. What actual news has ever come out of a WH press briefing other than news about WH press briefings?

NO ONE should go to the next one. And they shouldn't go to them for the remainder of the administration.

They aren't getting any actual information from these guys anyway. Their time is better spent chasing ACTUAL news about them.

Like, how about we look into those Russian connections, huh?

[SaschaHM]

10. Eh, getting them on the record is more or less the primary purpose now.

[sunonmars]

2. They should disinvite Trump and invite Alec Baldwin to the WHCD.

[JaneQPublic]

4. Excellent! And for the comic, none other than...

...Rosie O'Donnell will do.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Two thumbs up!

They certainly should disinvite Trump.
Just imagine what a better time it will be without
crumply old orange sourpuss on the dais lying his wide ass off.

[sunonmars]

3. The press sold themselves into this, they need to find a backbone to get out of it.

[old guy]

6. True this.

The corporate media is largely responsible for tRump being in the White House in the first place. He is angry because they are now finally starting to show that the emperor is naked and always has been. If they had held him to an honest standard from the start he would not be President and they would not be in the spot they are in. I have no sympathy for them at all.

[HAB911]

5. W.H.C.A. needs to do something dramatic

[Vinca]

7. When the next briefing is called, no one should show up.

Let Spicy talk to empty chairs.

[HAB911]

13. Bloomberg Cancels White House Correspondents Dinner Afterparty

Bloomberg L.P., host of the premier afterparty for the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, will not host an event this year, Axios has learned.

Planners for events surrounding the April 29 scholarship dinner, Washington's equivalent of Oscars night, have been beset with uncertainty because of Trump administration attacks on the press. But news organizations' strong interest in tickets for the 103rd annual dinner suggests that the night will remain sold out, as always.

A Bloomberg spokesperson told us: "We surveyed some of the past attendees and didn't get as much interest in a party this year as we've had in the past, so we decided to focus on the dinner and the WHCA."

https://www.axios.com/exclusive-bloomberg-cancels-afterparty-2283144254.html

[50 Shades Of Blue]

9. What a wimpy statement!

[Lucinda]

11. I learned a new word definition today! Thanks.

Knew gaggle of geese, never heard the term used in relationship to the press!

[matt819]

12. Every one of them should boycott the dinner

They should announce, en masse, that they will not participate in the whca dinner. They should coordinate and make the announcement at the same time and prominently. Front pages. Home pages. News broadcasts.