Perspective: For years, the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner was an embarrassment, Sulliview writes. Celebrities will be scarce at Saturday’s White House Correspondents' Association dinner — and that’s a good thing.
By Margaret Sullivan Margaret Sullivan Media columnist Email Bio Follow Media columnist April 23 at 11:44 AM For years, the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner was an embarrassment.It involved journalists cozying up to the government officials they are supposed to treat with a sense of adversarial independence, all while trying to get selfies with the likes of Helen Mirren, Jeff Goldblum and Scarlett Johansson.
What’s left is a high-minded journalism awards dinner, which is what the organizers, all along, defended it as. Sanders had been in the audience as Wolf took her shots: “She burns facts, and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Maybe she’s born with it; maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies.”
“Unfortunately, I don’t think we advanced the cause of journalism tonight,” tweeted Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent of the New York Times. In 2017, Graydon Carter, then editor of Vanity Fair, said he’d go fishing in Connecticut instead of hosting the magazine’s usual hot-ticket after-party. Asked why he was bailing out, Carter responded: “Trump, and the fish.”“Gone for good, it seems, are the Oscars-esque rarefied air of the Bloomberg/Vanity Fair, People/Time and Google affairs.
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