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Article: Counter Intel
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- The Stranger
- Article date:
- May 10, 2007
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Lackeys Who Lunch
Kenneth Bunting, associate publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, wrote an editorial last week applauding the New York Times for bowing out of the White House annual correspondents' dinners.
Appropriately scolding schmoozy gettogethers between the press and those they're supposed to cover, like the White House (hello... going to war under false pretenses without a fact-check by the media), Bunting wrote: "a columnist for the Kansas City Star opined that the media's chumminess with Washington power brokers at such black-tie spectacles is inappropriate.... Perhaps she was right. Some journalists manage to transform themselves into Washington socialites at such events. ...