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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhite House Correspondents' Dinner Looking Bleak This Year Too
The media companies that canceled their parties last year say they're still off, and MSNBC declined comment on their big afterparty.With about two months to go before the annual dinner, this year's edition of White House Correspondents' Dinner weekend is shaping up to be just as light on glitzy parties as last year, when several of the most prominent bashes were canceled as a nod to the frosty relationship between the White House and the press.
Representatives for Vanity Fair and Bloomberg confirmed that, like last year, the brands will not be co-hosting a party this year.
A spokeswoman for The New Yorker said the magazine's once-renowned party, canceled last year, isn't happening this year either.
Time and People magazines are also not bringing back their party, which wasn't held last year.
With all the cancellations, last year's biggest party thrown by a national media company was MSNBC's post-dinner bash.
But the top spokesman for MSNBC declined to comment when asked if the network will throw the party this year.
CNN, though, confirmed that the network will once again put on a brunch the morning after the dinner.
A spokesman for BuzzFeed said the company has not decided yet on whether it will host another party this year. Last year, BuzzFeed drew a capacity crowd on the night before the dinner.
Last week, comedian Michelle Wolf was announced as the featured entertainer for this year's dinner, which is thrown annually by the White House Correspondents' Association.
Interest in the 2018 dinner hinges in part on whether President Trump attends.
On Feb. 19, The Daily Mail reported that Trump would attend the dinner, but that report turned out to be premature.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at the time that a decision has not yet been reached on whether her boss will attend and sit for a potential grilling at his expense.
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White House Correspondents' Dinner Looking Bleak This Year Too (Original Post)
left-of-center2012
Feb 2018
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BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)1. He won't show again.
He has thin skin and an ego the size of Mount Rushmore so he would NEVER consider going if there was the most remote chance that he would be laughed at which is the point and tradition of the event. I prefer to keep the image in my mind's eye of him at the dinner when Obama made a joke about Birtherism (the night that Bin Laden was killed). Obama was able to pull it off effortlessly. The Moron sat there like a fuming statue about to self combust.
rurallib
(62,465 posts)2. good - the idea of the press schmaltzing with the president has always felt
unseemly to me.
Sure hope Sam Bee has her party again this year, though.