If the press skips the White House correspondents’ dinner, we’d prove Trump’s point
If Helen Mirren sits out this year's "nerd prom," no problem. But if the journalists who normally attend decide to bail, then they’d be applying a double standard.
By Major Garrett February 10
Major Garrett is the chief White House correspondent for CBS News and a former White House Correspondents’ Association board member.
The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is not a mood ring. It doesn’t care if President Trump — or any president — likes, dislikes, celebrates, scorns or ignores White House reporters. The annual gala does not indicate, illustrate or represent the relationship between the White House and the reporters who cover it. It is an institution that celebrates one bedrock American value, the First Amendment, and two journalistic goals: to highlight excellent reporting and to award scholarships to the next generation of American journalists.
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