While views were sharply divided over comedian Michelle Wolf’s performance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday, the resulting fracas produced one surprising point of agreement between some millennials and old-guard reporters: scrapping the event altogether.
“I would cancel the dinner immediately and use the money on the scholarships. The whole dinner is gross and shouldn’t exist,” HuffPost reporter Ashley Feinberg told TheWrap on Monday.
Feinberg’s boss, HuffPost Editor-in-chief Lydia Polgreen, tweeted Sunday that if Wolf’s searing takedown of Sarah Sanders got the dinner scrapped, then the “Daily Show” alum deserved high praise.
https://twitter.com/lpolgreen/status/990787649521766400
The sight of black-tie-clad journalists hobnobbing with White House officials they cover — as well as non-political celebrities flown in from New York and L.A.