This weekend is the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) dinner. Historically, it's when the ivy league trust fund journalism in-group meets in DC to rub elbows and share cocktails with powerful people, while a b or c-tier comedian tells sometimes-funny jokes about the President.The annual dinner is supposed to be an event that raises money for scholarships, honors journalists with awards, and celebrates the First Amendment. But it's steadily become a "see and be seen" affair where a cadre of affluent corporate media insiders (the ones that haven't been fired yet by our fascism-coddling oligarchs) share gossip and bask in self-importance at the fact they were invited to hobnob with an extraction class they're supposed to hold accountable.Many thought this sort of lazy fraternization was ill-advised before the country fell into idiot totalitarianism. Back then it was just tacky and arguably unethical. Now, with President Trump attending the dinner for the first time ever (he…
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