Monday, April 27, 2015
Nerd Prom Is a Mess - Patrick Gavin - POLITICO Magazine
In America, popularity and celebrity status have infiltrated the world of elected officials and those that report on them.
I don't know if they are "one happy family"; however, something is wrong in that they are clearly "in bed with each other...
I don't know if they are "one happy family"; however, something is wrong in that they are clearly "in bed with each other...
Patrick Gavin tells us all about it in his article in Politico Magazine:
"Everyone knows the White House Correspondents Association dinner is broken. What started off decades ago as a stately formal celebration of the best of presidential reporting has morphed into a four-day orgy of everything people outside the Beltway hate about life inside the Beltway—now it's not just one night of clubby backslapping, carousing and drinking between the press and the powerful, it's four full days of signature cocktails and inside jokes that just underscore how out of step the Washington elite is with the rest of the country. It's not us (journalists) versus them (government officials); it's us (Washington) versus them (the rest of America).
Something has to change."
