Real, or Madame Tussaud's? All I know is this: "PEOPLE-TIME-FORTUNE-CNN White House Correspondents dinner cocktail party at Hilton Hotel on May 9, 2009, in Washington, D.C."Please post your replies in the comments section, below. To e-mail confidentially, write gannettblog[at]gmail[dot-com]; see Tipsters Anonymous Policy in the green rail, upper right.
First, it's ridiculous that USAT ran an AP story when the paper bought two tables at the dinner.
ReplyDeleteSecond, who the hell decides who gets to go? Is this the famous USAT caste system at work yet again? As far as I can tell, most USAT staffers who attended have little or nothing to do with covering the federal government at all. Why can't USAT follow the example of the NYT, a far, far better paper that doesn't exactly seem to be hurting journalistically from not attending the dinner two years in a row? I think the WHCA should be ashamed of sponsoring such a boondoggle when so many reporters and editors are unemployed. This is elitism at its best, folks.
We should stop the world until all are employed?
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ReplyDeleteWhat a stupid, stupid comment!
Does it make sense to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a so-called White House Correspondents' dinner when only a tiny fraction of the people who attend have anything to do with covering the White House or even politics in general(I suppose you were one of them)??? And how inappropriate for the few real journalist who were there to get so cozy with people they cover. Totally inappropriate.
Yeah but there were some hot babes hanging around for the USAT higher ups to drool over. Good thing Al is 85 and home with his adopted.
ReplyDeleteOnly wish Tom C had a better hair cut. But then again, he had that AP newsman look.