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Two years ago, I was marvelling at how the White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual event had ballooned from a dinner to an entire weekend.
(“The gigantic ethics violation that was once called the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, and is now known as White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner Weekend …”) Today, via Politico, I have learned, perhaps later than everybody else in town, that the weekend formulation is already passé:
An entire week! At some point, it will encompass the entire year, and “journalist” will be a word we use to describe people whose job is to connect advertisers with celebrities and powerful officials.
