Columbia Journalism Review, July 1st, 1998
The White House Corespondents Association dinner played host to professional indignity and aided in the public's declining regard for the country's top journalists. In an attempt to provide the most provocative guest, an ongoing competition between members, Insight magazine invited Paula Jones as one of it's guest and celerity-dazzled journalist clamored to be photographed with her.
It's reasonable to conclude from the recent White House Correspondents' Association dinner that much of the Washington press corps has become like the man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing...
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