I don't have a problem with the dinner, per se. It's nice that wealthy, famous and influential people can finally have a night that's all about them for a change.
What I don't like is how self-important reporters get when reporting about reporters going to dinner. Tom Brokaw, probably rightly, worries that the Correspondant's Dinner makes journalists too chummy with the people they are supposed to be covering objectively. The defense is, basically, "but it's so much fun!" Isn't that also the accusation?
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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