WTF Is It Now?!?

Judith Miller Rag Taking Its Marbles and Going Home

According to E&P, Frank Rich says The New York Times is bailing on the White House Correspondents' Association's annual Bush blowjob dinner:

Tucked inside Frank Rich's Sunday column in the New York Times is indication that the newspaper will no longer play ball with the annual White House Correspondents Association dinners in Washington, which he calls "a crystallization of the press's failures in the post-9/11 era." He writes that the event "illustrates how easily a propaganda-driven White House can enlist the Washington news media in its shows....

"After last weekend's correspondents' dinner, The Times decided to end its participation in such events," wrote Rich. "But even were the dinner to vanish altogether, it remains but a yearly televised snapshot of the overall syndrome. The current White House, weakened as it is, can still establish story lines as fake as 'Mission Accomplished' and get a free pass."

Umm, Frank - not to quibble, but isn't this the same rag that invited Karl Rove as its special guest at this year's dinner? And whose brilliant fucking idea was that?

You don't suppose the two things could be at all related, hmmm, Frank?

~ L