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Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Annotated transcript of Michelle Wolf's caustic roasting of the Trump administration and the media at the White House Correspondents Dinner — Comedian Michelle Wolf roasted members of the Trump administration and the media at the annual White House correspondents' dinner on Saturday.
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The White House Correspondents Dinner: celebrity guests, scholarships and awards, the president's absence, and Michelle Wolf's cringeworthy jokes — Welcome to our coverage of the 2018 White House Correspondents' Association dinner. — The president may not be attending this year's event …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
For the sake of journalism, stop the White House correspondents' dinner — The 2018 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner should be the last. — It never has been a particularly good idea for journalists to don their fanciest clothes and cozy up to the people they cover …
Jen Chaney / Vulture:
No, Michelle Wolf Didn't Joke About Sarah Huckabee Sanders' Looks at the White House Correspondents' Dinner — As soon as Michelle Wolf finished delivering her blistering White House Correspondents Dinner roast of the Trump administration and the members of the press that cover it, she was …
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Kyle Cheney / @kyledcheney:
Michelle Wolf didn't fail just because she was (spectacularly) one-sided. It was because she was unnecessarily cruel on a night the WHCA was trying to showcase decency and purpose.Undermined an otherwise meaningful night.
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Meg Kinnard / @megkinnardap:
If the #WHCD dinner did anything tonight, it made the chasm between journalists and those who don't trust us, even wider. And those of us based in the red states who work hard every day to prove our objectivity will have to deal with it.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Michelle Wolf's Routine Sets Off a Furor at an Annual Washington Dinner
Matt Schlapp / @mschlapp:
My wife @mercedesschlapp and I walked out early from the wh correspondents dinner. Enough of elites mocking all of us
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Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt:
That @PressSec sat and absorbed intense criticism of her physical appearance, her job performance, and so forth, instead of walking out, on national television, was impressive.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sprint, T-Mobile Agree to $26 Billion Merger — T-Mobile parent would control combined firm, which will test antitrust regulators as 5G race heats up — The boards of Sprint Corp. and T-Mobile US Inc. struck a $26 billion merger that, if allowed by antitrust enforcers …
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Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch:
T-Mobile and Sprint have finally announced a merger agreement — Sprint and T-Mobile, after years of going back and forth as to whether they are going to tie up two of the largest telecom providers in the U.S., have announced that the two companies have entered a merger agreement this morning.
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Business Wire:
T-Mobile and Sprint to Combine, Accelerating 5G Innovation & Increasing Competition
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Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
It's finally happening: T-Mobile and Sprint to merge
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
The Justice Department Deleted Language About Press Freedom And Racial Gerrymandering From Its Internal Manual — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein ordered a review of the US Attorneys' Manual, which features high-level policy statements as well as practical guidance to prosecutors on how to do their jobs.
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Box Office: ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Launches With Heroic $250 Million — Avengers assembled in full force at the box office this weekend. — “Avengers: Infinity War” took North America by storm, opening with $250 million in 4,474 theaters. While numbers could fluctuate …
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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Closes in on All-Time Domestic Weekend Record
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Evan Hill / BuzzFeed:
Silicon Valley Can't Be Trusted With Our History — We create almost everything on the internet, but we control almost none of it. — Recently, a 7-year-old photo of mine appeared at the top of my Facebook feed. The orange glow of the streetlamps and the ramshackle barricade of furniture …
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Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
‘Solo’ Featurette Teases Look at Daily Life in the Galactic Empire (Video) — Upcoming “Star Wars” film will show the dystopian society that gave rise to Han Solo — The next film in the “Star Wars” anthology, “Solo,” will go inside the dystopian daily life faced by those living under the Empire …
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Jay Rosen / PressThink:
What savvy journalists say when they are minimizing Trump's hate movement against journalists — To the uninitiated it may look like a fight. Actually, it's a dance, they tell us. — For two years I have been tracking a speech pattern among American journalists, in which they try to explain to us …
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