Student protesters with their clarity of words and actions are riveted to reality, while the media class flinches from it.
Patrick Lawrence: Of Journalists, Students & Power
Tag: White House Correspondents dinner
WATCH: Protestors Confront White House Correspondents’ Dinner
As corporate media members enter the venue for the annual White House Correspondents’ dinner on Saturday anti-genocide protestors are literally in their faces over the mainstream media covering for Israel.
Palestinian Journalists Urge Boycott of White House Correspondents’ Dinner
The appeal to boycott the April 27 event says the White House’s support for Israel’s genocidal policies implicates it directly in the relentless targeting and massacring of journalists in Gaza.
US Officials Confronted on Assange Hypocrisy
The Biden administration has no way of squaring its free-press rhetoric with its persecution of the world’s most famous journalist, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
The Existential Question of Whom to Trust
With the fallout from the White House Correspondent’s dinner still swirling, and as we continue to celebrate Bob Parry’s life, we republish an extraordinary piece he wrote about last year’s dinner and the careerism undermining American professional life.