White House Correspondents Dinner

White House Press Dinner An Unseemly Lovefest

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What If They Threw A White House Correspondents' Dinner And Nobody Came

... of words with President Trump for years, cited the sitting president. "And the fish," Carter quipped. The hullabaloo around this year's dinner coincides with the new president's contentious and often openly hostile relationship with press outlets, some of which he has deemed "fake news," "very dishonest" and "lying, bad people.". White House Correspondents' Assn. President and Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason released a statement Thursday confirming that the dinner would take place as planned. "We've received some queries about the 2017 White House Correspondents' Dinner, which will be the first since the new administration took office," Mason said. “The White House Correspondents’ Association will hold its annual dinner on April 29 at the Washington Hilton.". "This year, as we do every year, we will celebrate the First Amendment and the role an independent press plays in a healthy republic," Mason continued. "We will also reward some of the finest political reporting of the past year while using our scholarship program to highlight and support up-and-coming journalists who are the future of our profession.". The dinner ...

Drain The White House Correspondents Dinner

... that alone will go some ways towards draining the swamp that is Washington. Journalists like to call the annual dinner, traditionally held in the spring at the Washington Hilton, the “nerd prom”; a humble brag that conjures up something far more bookish than the actual event. The New York Times recently called the soiree “the apex of Washington’s social calendar, replete with Hollywood A-listers, tuxedoed television stars and live coverage on the major news networks.” Think of it as the Oscars, East Coast. But that was before Donald Trump. Scheduled for April 29, the dinner this year will be a ghost of its former self. Trump, who endured a famously miserable evening at the 2011 dinner (when both President Obama and the night’s entertainer Seth Meyers got off some brutal jokes at his expense), won’t have to lift a finger to slay the beast. Unable to suffer the indignity of breaking bread with the new occupant of the White House, media types, who were only too thrilled to see and be seen partying at the dinner during the Clinton and Obama presidencies (and probably had their dancing shoes polished for a Clinton restoration), are doing ...

If The Press Skips The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, We’d Prove Trump’s Point

... of the Trump administration is the right moment to do away with the event altogether, strikes me as precisely the wrong approach. My outlet, CBS News, will participate this year and proudly so. If they back out now, organizations that attended last year ought to explain what is different about this year. Is it Trump? Or is it them? Skipping needlessly hands an evidentiary cudgel to Trump and his acolytes that reporters cannot and will not cover his presidency objectively. Yes, it might strike some as unseemly for reporters to attend a banquet where the keynote speaker is a president who calls the press “dishonest” purveyors of “fake news.” But it would be even more unseemly, given our role, if we signaled to our readers, viewers and listeners that it is beneath us to pay Trump the same ...

Trump Will Be First President In 36 Years To Skip White House Correspondents Dinner

... the night. But in recent weeks, as relations between the White House and the news media has grown more strained, several news organizations have announced plans to not attend this year's dinner. Buzzfeed reported that CNN, which Trump has been pointedly attacking, might boycott, and Bloomberg canceled hosting a planned after party, a longtime feature of the event in collaboration with Vanity Fair. Vanity Fair had pulled out earlier. NPR and most other news organizations are still planning to attend. Some news outlets, like The New York Times, have been skipping the event for years because, in part, of charges of the event depicting journalists as being too chummy with the president. CBS's Major Garrett, the network's chief White House correspondent and a former board member of the correspondents' association, penned an op-ed in the Washington Post , in which he said he thought it was a bad idea for the press to skip the event. He concluded. "If Trump represents a ...

Trump Will Not Attend White House Correspondents' Dinner

... Trump Troll Doll Kickstarter Has Raised Almost $300,000. The annual dinner, which has become a tradition since it began in 1920, is organized by the journalists who cover the White House and the president. Each year, an entertainer or comedian hosts the event and playfully roasts the president. Former President Barack Obama attended all eight dinners during his two-term presidency. Donald Trump's Inauguration Day, in Pictures. Several news outlets, including Vanity Fair, The New York Times and Buzz Feed News, previously announced they would sit out this year's dinner and Bloomberg canceled its annual afterparty. The night of the dinner, Full Frontal host Samantha Bee planned to raise funds to support the Committee to Protect Journalists at her own event, titled Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner. The White House Correspondents' Association posted a statement on Twitter after Trump's announcement. "The White House Correspondents' ...

A Brief History Of The White House Correspondents’ Dinner

... Sofia Vergara and Steven Spielberg, filled the audience. — Is This Thing On. Starting in the ‘80 s, most headliners were comedians. Al Franken — a former writer and cast member for “Saturday Night Live” and today a Democratic U. S. senator for Minnesota — performed in 1994 and 1996. He is the only keynote speaker to eventually have been elected to Congress. Ray Romano, Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers and Joel Mc Hale have all led the festivities. And sometimes the comedians have caused controversy. In 2006, Stephen Colbert, who was hosting the satirical “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central, offered biting criticism of President George W. Bush in his keynote speech. Colbert did his mock-conservative shtick from “The Colbert Report” and teased Bush, saying, “Guys like us, we’re not some brainiacs on the nerd patrol.” Sitting mere feet away, the president did not seem amused. Colbert also ribbed the news media: “Over the last five ...

No 'nerd Prom' For Trump As President Says He'll Skip White House Correspondent's Dinner

... that in recent years has drawn fire for being too opulent and self-indulgent. Amid tensions between the White House and the national media about whether reporters are covering the president objectively, Trump said in a tweet that he would not attend the function—derisively referred to as "Nerd Prom"—on April 29. Trump tweet. In recent days, a debate has erupted over whether the WHCA should altogether cancel its event, widely regarded as elbow-rubbing between Hollywood, media and political elites. On Friday, the acrimonious relationship between Trump and the media reached a crescendo when the White House press office selectively chose certain outlets for an informal on-the-record briefing, yet barred others—including CNN, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. The president's decision to skip the WHCA dinner arrives at a time when even journalists ...

Trump Says He Won't Attend Correspondents Dinner This Spring

... journalists and celebrities and is typically attended by the president and first lady. Remarks by a comedian, often roasting the president, and a humorous address by the president himself, often roasting the press and political opponents, have highlighted the event, which C-SPAN has carried live. In a tweet Saturday, Trump wrote: "I will not be attending the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner this year. Please wish everyone well and have a great evening!" He gave no reason for not attending. Trump has long had an adversarial relationship with news media. Since taking office, however, he has stepped up his criticism by accusing some prominent news outlets of publishing "fake news" and calling them "the enemy of the American People!". Trump had been a regular at the WHCA dinner in recent years, befitting his celebrity status as a reality TV star and beauty pageant owner. He skipped the dinner in April 2016, which came amid the presidential campaign and was the last of the dinners in which President Barack Obama was the honored guest. That didn't mean Trump wasn't the butt of jokes. At one point Obama told guests that Trump "has spent years ...

Is The White House Correspondents’ Dinner Worth Saving

... crap, that’s salutary. And hard-working association members like Garrett could defend the evening with even more verve. “The Ballad of Bowling Green”. Well, there was the real Jake Tapper’s interrogation last week of the real Kellyanne Conway. And then we had Saturday Night Live’s rather creepy, too overt by half spoof of a Fatal Attraction-like Conway (Kate Mc Kinnon) trying to kill Tapper (Beck Bennett) ( Slate ). Rather more subtle is long-ago SNL alum Harry Shearer’s Ballad of Bowling Green, a song that is rather more cutting — pun intended — than the SNL effort. “Who knows how many citizens had their lives turned upside down when terror never came ‘round?” There was “the uneventful nightmare we shared. The questions don’t stop in Bowling Green.”No one will tell their neighbors what to say. No one will learn the lesson they don’t have to tell. Why did it feel just like a movie scene but no one yelled “Cut!’ cut in Bowling Green.” ( Sound Cloud ). Passing Twitter. “Twitter Inc.’s two-day plunge after a disappointing fourth-quarter earnings report has pushed its market value below that of its fast-growing ...