White House Correspondents Dinner Has Little To Do With the Press
I’m home tonight watching a Ken Burns documentary, much better than being at the so-called WHCA dinner.
It has become a charade, a showcase for the glitterati. There is nothing wrong with that; just don’t pretend it has anything to do with White House correspondents. It will be 3,000 of our closest friends gathering without the anti-press President of the United States nor any comedian in deference to the absent POTUS.
Years ago this was an interesting dinner, It was about the Washington press; you’d take guests that were part of the news eco-cycle. One year I took Larry Woodworth, staff director of the Joint Congressional Committee on Taxation. I was covering the House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee; it was a great learning evening from a very nice and very smart guest.
Another dinner I took Jerry Brown, unsurpassed as an interesting political figure. He had spent time with Mother Theresa and asked what stood out about her. “She’s a great marketer,” he said.” I am Jesuit and we’re into turtle necks and wine; so are a lot of Protestant guys in Wall Street.. Mother Thersa knows her niche: poverty.”
It was a great evening with one caveat; The next week Brown hired my assistant who he met at the dinner.
Those were the glory days; back to Ken Burns !
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