Where's the bar, boys? The View host Barbara Walters's arrival is featured in Politico's wall-to-wall coverage of what the new Beltway Bible calls D.C.'s "most glamorous weekend." Actors Tim Daly (inset, left) and Richard Belzer were USA Today's celebrity dinner guests.
Did you attend last night's White Shoe (heh) Correspondents' Association lollapalooza? Brought your camera-equipped cellphone? Of course, you did! First, post your best (and worst!) video and photos to your YouTube, Facebook, Flickr or other video and photo-sharing site pages. Then, send me the links. I see melting ice sculptures -- and drunk execs!
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Earlier: Who's expensing -- and how much, in the 50-plus-member USA Today/Gannett Co. Inc. dinner barge delegation
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The Hilton's crowded ballroom is going to be an incubating chamber for swine flu, so please attendees send us pix of all the vomiting on the tables.
ReplyDeleteIf Marymont and Connell are there and get into a cat fight, I hope it happens within view of cameras!
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ReplyDeleteWhat an incredible waste of time. (Attending the correspondent's dinner, not this commentary). If this is Washington's version of Hollywood royalty, someone get these people a Costco-sized box of ex-lax. The Times at least has it right by no longer attending.
ReplyDeletePeople got the 2008 print coverage under deadline award for eletion night coverage?!?
ReplyDeleteThis event and this blog host have become far too precious.
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People,
ReplyDeleteJim is just jealous that he and Sparky never could attend.
Where is his outrage at NYT, WSJ, and all the other bastions of journalism that participate?
1:32, pay attention. NYT bagged the event last year as well as this year.
ReplyDelete1:32 am: Please see my earlier, longer post. In any case, however, the name of this site is GANNETT Blog.
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ReplyDeleteWell, if USAT was going to go (and I think I would have personally busted for my own ticket) I think the better "get" would have been Big Story people over tired celebs.
ReplyDeleteFor instance:
"Also among the glitterati were hero pilot Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger, who successfully landed his Piper jet in the Hudson River without any fatalities last February and Richard Phillips, the captain who was held hostage by Somali pirates after his cargo ship was attacked in April."
These are more worthwhile and interesting table-mates, IMHO.
And just for the record, I got the info about the pilot and the sea camptain from the MailOnline.
ReplyDeleteHad to go to foreign press to read something OTHER than the AP story which dominates the coverage in the United States this morning.
Hey, 5/10/2009 1:32 AM, The NYT doesn't go. According to the BBC, "In 2007 the paper's columnist Frank Rich wrote that "the fete is a crystallization of the press's failures in the post-9/11 era: it illustrates how easily a propaganda-driven White House can enlist the Washington news media in its shows".
ReplyDeleteBut it seems to me that the NYT was more disapproving of George W. and might have enjoyed participating now that there's a Democrat in the White House.
Jim Hopkins said...
ReplyDelete1:32 am: Please see my earlier, longer post. In any case, however, the name of this site is GANNETT Blog.
5/10/2009 2:34 AM
Oh, that is rich. I'll remind you that you said that the next time you write about crap that isn't Gannett. Things like the Freedom Forum, "what I'm doing right now," (over and over and over again) Google exec resigns, Neighbors, and a film starring Pepper LaBeija - things like that.
Anyone that complains about this secretly wishes they were there as well.
ReplyDeleteWho is Marymount?
ReplyDeleteHilton was jammed packed on C-Span Cameras. Didn't think much of the jokes, but they didn't pay all that much for tables to get A List comedians. That is, unless you count Joe Biden. Delaware's Own.
Yes, NYT bagged the evennt. That was to pay Janet and Paunch the millions they get. So what?
Dudes, someone pleassssse tell Tom Curley to get a new barber. His hair is the worst. Is that thing a comb over or a helmet.
ReplyDelete10:39 am: I'll amend that earlier remark. The name of this site is GANNETT Blog, edited by Jim Hopkins, who now and then strays off the straight and narrow path, so please just bear with me, OK?
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