White House correspondents dinner

[matt819]

Got thinking about it this morning. Three thoughts.

1. Conventional reaction: news organizations shouldn't attend. Okay

2. How about this as an option. Don't hold the dinner.

3. Or this. Hold the dinner. Don't invite the president.

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	News organizations don't attend dinner
	2 (11%)
	Don't hold the dinner
	0 (0%)
	Don't invite the president or any administration officials.
	16 (89%)
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[Sherman A1]

1. As this is a charity event of some sort it and is already booked

it may need to go on, but I see no obligation by the group hosting it to invite anyone from the WH.

[pinboy3niner]

7. The invitation to the president would have been made already, early on

But I believe it should have been withdrawn even before this because of Trump's hostile actions toward the press.

Someone suggested having Alec Baldwin as keynote speaker instead, which is a great idea. Throw in Melissa McCarthy, too.

[vanlassie]

2. Samantha Bee is holding an alternate event.

[vlyons]

3. although watching Trump grit his teeth in stoney silence,

never cracking a smile, as Obama ridiculed him was rather priceless. Would love to see him endure another roasting, but I doubt he would attend.

[OnDoutside]

4. It must happen, and slag the crap out of him. Let HIM be

The one not to turn up.

[AngryAmish]

5. The thing has been a grotesque mess for decades

Would any of you want to see me and my friends get drunk on TV? No you would not.

Where did these people get the idea that they are so privileged that they deserve to have people care about their work entertainment event? It is galling to anyone with a modicum of self respect or a whiff of personal dignity.

[SticksnStones]

6. The problem is what's going on between the WH and the press isn't funny

It's dangerous...and I believe to socialize with them at the dinner is to normalize it, to lessen its chilling effects.

Let Trump sit and pal around with Breitbart and InfoWars staff. Everyone else should taunt the WH from Samantha Bee's event.

[Vinca]

8. They should invite Obama.

[mainstreetonce]

9. Agreed

I was just going to post that.

[truebluegreen]

10. This dinner is a big flashing light

illuminating what is wrong with the journalism profession in the first place, particularly in DC. The press should be reporting on the government, not cozying up to it. Journalism is about printing stuff somebody doesn't want printed; everything else is PR (h/t to George Orwell).

There should be no dinner at all.

[Trust Buster]

11. Dis-invite the creep. And, if he insists on coming, get up and walk out of the room when he walks

to the microphone to make his remarks. This dinner is to award journalists and give scholarships to aspiring journalists. IT'S THEIR DINNER.