An ExtraEmbarrassing White House Correspondents Dinner
News Source : The Atlantic
News Summary
- The White House Correspondents' Dinner is an awkward and ethically fraught affair.
- This year's gala figures to be even more awkward and embarrassing than usual.
- Trump easily qualifies as the most anti-press president in the dinner’s 105-year history.
- He has sued news organizations, threatened to jail journalists, and suggested taking broadcast licenses away from TV networks that have reported stories he didn’t like.
- His administration has defunded NPR and PBS, hobbled Voice of America, and driven mainstream journalists out of the Pentagon.
Even in the best of times, the annual White House Correspondents Dinner is an awkward and ethically fraught affair. Journalists spend the evening partying with the president and administration offic [+6310 chars]
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