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Gavin: WHCD An ‘Orgy of Self-Celebration’

Journalist Patrick Gavin, who is director of “Nerd Prom: Inside Washington’s Wildest Week,” a film about the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, dubbed the event a “huge, sort of, orgy of self-celebration” during CNN’s special coverage of the event. Gavin

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Blitzer, Harf: We’re Happy We’re Hanging Out With Jane Fonda

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and State Department Acting Spokesperson Marie Harf lavished praise on Jane Fonda, while Blitzer also expressed his joy to be hanging out with Harf in an interview broadcast during CNN’s coverage of Saturday’s White House Correspondents Association Dinner.

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Filmmaker: White House Correspondents Dinner Increasingly ‘Out of Touch’

A new film by former Politico journalist Patrick Gavin is challenging the culture surrounding what has become DC’s most self-absorbed annual event, the White House Correspondents Association dinner. His assessment: things started to go south around the same time Hollywood began using the event as an excuse for a four-day party.