"Why I don't completely hate the White House Correspondents Dinner... but I do hate how the dinner has been organized in recent years."
ericdeggans.substack.com/p/why-i-dont...
Journalist @edeggans.bsky.social says he attended in 2022 and 2023, and found it extremely useful in adding to his beat.
"Why I don't completely hate the White House Correspondents Dinner... but I do hate how the dinner has been organized in recent years."
ericdeggans.substack.com/p/why-i-dont...
Journalist @edeggans.bsky.social says he attended in 2022 and 2023, and found it extremely useful in adding to his beat.
Quite a few people in reacting to this post said something similar.
Yes.
"...somehow even more grotesque" is right.
You left out the "intimate" part. This is going to be an intimate evening.
Yes.
Bluesky under attack. (Maybe you noticed that Thursday.)
"Bluesky’s website and app are still struggling on Friday after experiencing service interruptions that chief operating officer Rose Wang attributed to an ongoing cyberattack." techcrunch.com/2026/04/17/i...
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Read the text of this invite below. It is crazed.
'Ellison’s decision to spend time in Washington “honoring” a White House that has made demonizing the press central to its playbook has outraged staffers at CBS News.' www.status.news/p/david-elli...
The journalist asks the mayor questions, and the mayor — this is the part I like — answers them. Not always, not perfectly, but enough to get a sense. It's a good system.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJCS...
"Magyar’s first target: Hungary’s state-controlled media."
www.politico.eu/article/pete...
"Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar used landmark appearances on state-controlled media outlets on Wednesday to reaffirm his intention to suspend their broadcasts as soon as he’s sworn in."
Yes.
Okay, then. The answer is yes.
I don't know what that is.
The key as to why any real journalist would attend the Correspondents Dinner is in the term "exclusive." You need the The Excluded to make the dinner come alive.
Compare Don Lemon's decision: “I'm not interested in dressing up in a tuxedo, sipping champagne, and pretending everything is normal..." with Dylan Byers, "very exclusive party ahead of the White House Correspondents’ Association" with its "bipartisan comity."
Thanks. I fixed it.
Remember when the owners of the Pittsburgh Gazette — with roots that go back to 1786 — said they were closing shop?
Read: www.cnn.com/2026/04/14/m...
The more I've thought about it, the more challenging it becomes.
Viktor Orbán's successor, Péter Magyar, has to encourage pro-democracy news media, and leave space for genuine criticism while battling the remains of the Orbán regime. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20... via @brianstelter.bsky.social
The cast for canceling the White House Correspondents Dinner. From Mark Jacob, formerly an editor at the Chicago Tribune.
When I try to get my mind around the Correspondents involving Trump in their First Amendent ritual, I begin with an imperative they have. Find a way NOT TO THINK for yourself.
Thus: "We always invite the president. What's your problem?"
For once you admit that things have changed... you are lost.
You don't get the sense that the people running the Correspondents dinner have thought this thing through.
@status.news: "Seems hard to believe he will not deliver remarks to the crowd, knowing they will be carried on cable news networks."
Can anyone imagine a WHCD official correcting a Trump lie?
These accounts sound perilously like "Iran blocked the Strait of Hormuz and, in retaliation, Trump blocked the Strait of Hormuz."
CNN: Hungary election: Trump ally Viktor Orbán concedes defeat after 16 years as prime minister www.cnn.com/2026/04/12/w...
I tried to be careful in how I worded it, knowing that some would argue. When you also read the link, I think it works.
If you think of yourself as pro-democracy, today is an important one for you. Hungary has an election.
Polls have been showing that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán could lose.
Read and share: "Is Budapest the bellwether?" By Michael Angeloni and Ben Raderstorf
www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/is-budapes...
Thanks, Ray.
"We all have eyes to see, but our media can't dare speak to the reality. And so we endure as we do."
An instructive thread from David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social about why the press even today cannot tell the truth about Trump.
Similar in some ways to my pressthink.org/2017/09/norm...
"If Trump is willing to trash longstanding traditions, why are news executives so beholden to them?"
It's not just the Correspondents dinner, but all the other invites around it. @status.news is asking news executives "whether they planned to invite members of the administration to sip cocktails."
Swan and Haberman have a book coming out. I read this excerpt with one question in mind. How will the book handle the fact that fact means nothing to Trump? Not much is said about that, but this clip is notable. [gift link]
Steven Cheung, communications director: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...