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White House Correspondents’ Dinner Turns Into a Media War Story
Every journalist loves to tell war stories. On February 26, 2022, for instance, I woke up on the lobby floor of the Kharkiv Palace hotel in Eastern Ukraine to a…
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Jon Stewart Reflects on White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Jon Stewart recounted the chaos at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night, which was interrupted by a shooter. Donald and Melania Trump were rushed off the stage in…
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Trump Demands Support for Ballroom After Correspondents’ Dinner Attack
Even before Donald Trump addressed the press in the aftermath of a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, large swaths of the online right had decided on a course…
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Donald Trump Evacuated From White House Correspondents’ Dinner
The incident occurred about 45 minutes into the event's start President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump were evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, DC, on Saturday…
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White House Correspondents Dinner Guests Have Attacked Free Speech
Bari Weiss’ approach to free speech has always been fungible. Weiss and other conservative students at Columbia complained in 2005 that professors were limiting students’ ability to speak freely about…
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Jimmy Kimmel Parodies White House Correspondents’ Dinner Monologue
Since President Trump is breaking with tradition and having a mentalist host the White House Correspondents’ Dinner instead of a comedian, Jimmy Kimmel hosted his own “alternate” gala on his…