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The Future of News
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On April 28, I spent an interesting evening not sitting next to Donald Trump. Normally, the president comes to the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner—and sits beside the editor-in-chief of the organization whose reporter is the association’s chair. That honor would have been mine, but sadly Trump, for the second year in a row, declined, making clear his disdain for the established media.
I spent most of the evening looking down from the dais at the ranks of American journalism, gathered around their pennanted tables like a slightly drunken medieval army. A 2006 cover of the Economist came to mind.