A radical reimagining of the White House correspondents' dinner

Last week, I wrote a Guardian column outlining my longstanding objections to the White House correspondents’ dinner, which predate Donald Trump’s terms in office. ...

Now the organizers are considering rescheduling the dinner. And Donald Trump, who told an interviewer over the weekend that he had planned a speech that really ripped the press corps, is urging the rescheduling happen within 30 days — as if he were in charge of that decision. (He’s not; he was an invitee.)

I can’t disagree with former CNN journalist and now independent journalist John Harwood who has an easy solution, not too different from what I advocated years ago in my Washington Post column about the dinner where I suggested the organizers “stick a fork in it.” “For cryin’ out loud, cancel the dinner permanently,” Harwood posted Monday, calling it a “godawful event that serves no useful purpose.”

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