{"id":1922292,"date":"2023-05-01T22:42:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T02:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-media-drop-the-charade-over-their-annual-dinner-now-they-want-you-to-know-how-corrupt-they-are\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T22:48:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T02:48:22","slug":"washington-media-drop-the-charade-over-their-annual-dinner-now-they-want-you-to-know-how-corrupt-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-media-drop-the-charade-over-their-annual-dinner-now-they-want-you-to-know-how-corrupt-they-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Media Drop The Charade Over Their Annual Dinner \u2014 Now They Want You To Know How Corrupt They Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwashington-media-drop-the-charade-over-their-annual-dinner-now-they-want-you-to-know-how-corrupt-they-are%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1922292&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The White House Correspondents\u2019 Association Dinner: A Silly Orgy of Elitism<\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s something truly awe-inspiring about the Washington media\u2019s resumption of the annual White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner in all its tacky, wince-worthy depravity. It\u2019s as if they hadn\u2019t spent the last several years pretending to have gone through a profound reckoning, acknowledging it as a decadent and unnecessary affair that bred suspicion of journalists being too in bed, literally, with the people they\u2019re supposed to be holding accountable on behalf of the public.<\/p>\n<p>All it took was one election to go the media\u2019s way, and boy, did that farce end fast.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-778515161\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1a35db1a6c0591b7691824148a2e5220 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1a35db1a6c0591b7691824148a2e5220\"><\/div>\n<p>CNN ran a promo for its coverage of the event, referring to the dinner as \u201cthe unforgettable, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-more-ricky-ratings-for-woke-golden-globes-crash-spectacularly\/\" title=\"No More Ricky: Ratings For Woke Golden Globes Crash Spectacularly\">star-studded event<\/a>.\u201d The flashy spot featured clips of the channel\u2019s anchors in pricey formal wear, posing for photos with celebrities on a red carpet, beaming in their most pathetic environment.<\/p>\n<p>It was just six years ago that the very same CNN made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">big statement<\/a> about its \u201ccommitment to the health and longevity of a free press\u201d by foregoing the usual celebrity guests at its reserved table and instead inviting journalism students. It was \u201cMake A Wish,\u201d but with a heaping of self-reverence. <\/p>\n<p>During that same time, NPR ran a segment titled \u201cJournalists Reconsider Purpose Of The White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner,\u201d though the reconsidering of the event was something that happened every single year \u2014 the media would take a week in the beauty of springtime to party it up with celebrities (mostly B- and C-List) and highlight their close, personal relationships with government officials. And when it was over, they would take turns lamenting the optics, hand wringing over the possibility that regular readers and viewers might get the wrong idea, a false impression that the media were more or less just an extension of Washington rather than a means for the public to keep it in check.<\/p>\n<p>As recently as 2019 \u2014 the last year that the event was hosted until 2023 \u2014 an article in Politico claimed that the dinner was \u201cshrinking back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-media-drop-the-charade-over-their-annual-dinner-now-they-want-you-to-know-how-corrupt-they-are\/\" title=\"Washington Media Drop The Charade Over Their Annual Dinner \u2014 Now They Want You To Know How Corrupt They Are\">boring awards ceremony journalists claimed<\/a> to prefer.\u201d<\/p>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2b1588d6aa4ac2adddb2295d6b31587f fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2b1588d6aa4ac2adddb2295d6b31587f\"><\/div>\n<p>Tom Brokaw was wheeled out yearly to claim that preference. \u201cI don\u2019t think the big press event in Washington should be\u00a0that kind of glittering event,\u201d he said in 2012,\u00a0\u201cwhere the whole talk is about Cristal champagne, taking over the Italian embassy,\u00a0who had the best party, who got to meet the most people.\u201d The following year, he said, \u201cThis is one of the issues that we have to address. What kind of image do we present to the rest of the country? Are we doing their business, or are we just a group of narcissists who are mostly interested in elevating our own profiles?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the idea was never wrong, and the impression wasn\u2019t false. The dinner \u2014\u00a0encased in back-to-back parties \u2014 is exactly what it always looked like.<\/p>\n<p>Trump gave the media an excuse to pretend otherwise. But while he\u2019s gone from Washington, they\u2019re back and happier than ever to distinguish themselves from everyone else outside the city. This time, they didn\u2019t suggest otherwise.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<h3>About the Author:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n<p>Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<h3>Tags:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\"><strong>Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\"><strong>Joe Biden<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/media\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\"><strong>Media<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/washington\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\"><strong>Washington<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in bed with politicians. But no, they\u2019re back at it again, reveling in the glitz and glamour of a night that\u2019s more about rubbing elbows with the powerful than holding them accountable. It\u2019s a spectacle that\u2019s both cringe-worthy and fascinating, a reminder of the strange and often incestuous relationship between the press and those they\u2019re supposed to be watchdogs for. Love it or hate it, you can\u2019t deny that the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner is a spectacle unlike any other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":1922293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[3888,25539,9696,9159,5053,4188,3618,4086],"class_list":["post-1922292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-annual","tag-charade","tag-corrupt","tag-dinner","tag-drop","tag-media","tag-riot","tag-washington"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1922293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}