And yet, media coverage of the White House under Trump has been anything but conventional.
然而,围绕特朗普治下白宫的媒体报道,却远谈不上循常蹈矩。
On a day of considerable fanfare, as Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited Washington and was slated to attend a state dinner, not a single major American television network carried live coverage.
值此中国领导人习近平造访华盛顿、并拟出席国宴这一万众瞩目之日,美国各大电视网络竟无一进行现场直播报道。
After the White House excluded CNN from the rotation whereby America's five major broadcast networks take turns filming and sharing video footage, the remaining four, in a show of solidarity, continued to refuse to take part in the so-called video pool.
白宫将CNN排除在美国五大广播媒体轮流拍摄并共享视频的轮换机制之外后,其余四家为示团结,依然拒绝参与所谓的视频联营。
Initially, in the early hours of the morning, reporters from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico were turned away at the door.
最初,于清晨时分,CNN、MS NOW及Politico的记者遭拒于门外。
A Secret Service agent confiscated their credentials, an act that formed part of the ban.
一名特勤局特工没收了他们的证件,此系禁令之一环。
After a ruling was issued in the early hours of Thursday concerning the aforementioned outlets, White House operations officials were notified to reinstate access for the affected journalists, yet they indicated that it would take some time to retrieve, reactivate, and deliver their passes.
周四凌晨针对上述媒体作出裁决后,白宫运营官员获通知恢复受影响记者的准入资格,然其表示尚需时日以寻回、重新激活并交付其通行证。
According to a government court filing, this process took more than two hours.
据一份政府法庭文件披露,此一过程耗时逾两小时。
In a ruling that temporarily lifted the ban, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the White House to "immediately return, restore, and reinstate" the three outlets' access.
在临时解除禁令的裁决中,美国地区法官蒂莫西·凯利责令白宫“立即归还、恢复和复原”这三家媒体的准入权。
He declared that they had met the legal threshold for obtaining a temporary restraining order and were highly likely to succeed in proving that their press credentials had been revoked without due process.
他宣称,它们已然达到获得临时限制令的法律门槛,且极有可能成功证明其记者证系在缺乏正当程序的情况下被撤销。
Kelly — whom Trump nominated in 2017 and who, in a similar case in 2018, ordered the restoration of a CNN correspondent's access — stated that the government must establish clear criteria defining what conduct warrants the revocation of a press pass.
凯利——特朗普于2017年提名他,他在2018年一起类似案件中下令恢复一名CNN记者的准入权——表示政府必须具备明确的标准,以界定何种行为会导致记者证被撤销。
He characterized the objectionable reporting standards outlined in the White House's letters to these outlets as "so vague as to be virtually unworkable."
他称白宫在致这些媒体的信函中所概述的令人反感的报道标准“如此模糊,几乎起不到作用”。
Theodore Boutrous Jr., counsel for these news organizations, asserted that the judge's expeditious ruling affirmed the principles of a free press, due process, and the rule of law.
这些新闻机构的代理律师小西奥多·布特鲁斯称,法官的迅疾裁决印证了新闻自由、正当程序与法治原则。
"I am firmly convinced that we shall emerge from this ordeal all the stronger, and that the strategy of indiscriminately vilifying the press and singling out individual journalists will inevitably be abandoned," Boutrous remarked in an interview with MS NOW on Thursday afternoon.
“我笃信,我们终将因此淬炼得愈发强大,那种一味攻讦媒体、针对个别记者的策略势将遭到摒弃,”布特鲁斯于周四午后接受MS NOW采访时如是说。
"The law is unequivocally on our side," he stated.
“法律无疑站在我们这一边,”他说道。
The temporary restraining order — whose purpose is generally to preserve the status quo while the court subjects the case to more deliberate scrutiny — is set to expire in two weeks.
临时限制令——其旨归通常在于,在法院对案件予以更为审慎的审查期间维持现状——将于两周后届满。
The judge gave both sides until October 5 to submit arguments on whether a more enduring preliminary injunction ought to be considered.
法官给予双方直至10月5日的时间,以提交关于是否应考虑颁布一项更具持久性的初步禁令的论辩。
Kelly said he "intends to rule promptly" on the request for a preliminary injunction.
凯利表示,他“打算迅速裁决”初步禁令之请求。
At the hearing, Boutrous argued that restoring access was a matter of utmost urgency, asserting that the ban had inflicted irreparable harm on these outlets at a time when momentous news events were unfolding.
布特鲁斯于听证会上申辩,恢复准入权一事刻不容缓,并称该禁令在重大新闻事件发生之际对这些媒体造成了不可弥补的损害。
"We are in a state of war," he told the judge.
“我们正处于交战状态,”他向法官表示。
"World leaders are arriving in Washington one after another."
“世界各国领导人正陆续抵达华盛顿。”
In arguing that Trump had not engaged in viewpoint discrimination—that is, singling out a particular media outlet on account of the content it articulates or the information it publishes—Welchick observed that although the president had criticized other news organizations, he had not imposed bans on them.
在辩称特朗普并未实施观点歧视——亦即政府因特定媒体所言之内容或所刊布之信息而对其加以针对——之际,韦尔奇克指出,总统虽曾对其他新闻机构予以批评,却并未对其施以禁令。
By way of illustration, he cited as evidence the instance in which Trump had called ABC "the worst."
例如,他援引特朗普曾称ABC“最差”一事为证。
Judging by the markings on tripods and cameras, the other television outlets with reporting teams on site included NewsNation, Newsmax, Right Side Broadcasting Network, One America News, and LindellTV.
依据三脚架及摄像机上的标识判断,其他派驻报道团队的电视媒体涵盖NewsNation、Newsmax、Right Side Broadcasting Network、One America News以及LindellTV。
The reporter claimed that he had furnished clients with video footage of Trump welcoming Xi Jinping, leaving it to them to exercise their own discretion as to whether it should be broadcast.
记者声称,其已向客户提供特朗普迎接习近平的视频素材,以供后者自行裁量是否予以播出。
"We did not carry live coverage on our own platforms—including APNews.com or our YouTube channel," said Patrick Maks, a spokesperson for the Associated Press.
“我们并未在自身平台——包括APNews.com或我们的YouTube频道——进行直播报道,”美联社发言人帕特里克·马克斯如是说。