Mediagazer: Examining the puzzling pearl-clutching of people who said Michelle Wolf criticized Sarah Sanders' appearance, which Wolf didn't do (Jen Chaney/Vulture)

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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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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.

Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:

Journalists should stop the White House Correspondents Dinner because it has become downright counterproductive to the goals of good journalism — The 2018 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner should be the last. — It never has been a particularly good idea for journalists …

Discussion: @whca, The Atlantic, @bgrueskin, CNN, @joshuagreen, @bgrueskin, @cmclymer, @emilybell, @bgrueskin, 89.3 KPCC, Splinter, @joshuagreen, @meridak, @jeffjarvis, Amy Siskind, The Wrap, NPR and Washington Free Beacon

Jen Chaney / Vulture:

Examining the puzzling pearl-clutching of people who said Michelle Wolf criticized Sarah Sanders' appearance, which Wolf didn't do — 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 …

Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:

The DOJ deleted a section from US Attorneys' Manual called “Need for Free Press and Public Trial”; Eric Holder-era policies on subpoenaing reporters remain — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein ordered a review of the US Attorneys' Manual, which features high-level policy statements …

Discussion: Law & Crime and New York Magazine

Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:

IAB report advises media buyers to spend on digital video ahead of next week's NewFronts, as audiences are younger and more diverse — Online advertising trade organization touts video viewership ahead of NewFronts next week — As publishers prepare to woo the advertising industry next week …

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Starting in Q4 2018, YouTube TV ad inventory will be available through Google Preferred, the premium ad program for the top 5% most popular YouTube channels — Video giant to let marketers pitch spots to cord-cutters, buy inventory in YouTube TV — YouTube wants to siphon off …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, YouTube Blog, Adweek, Engadget, Ad Age and Deadline

Evan Hill / BuzzFeed:

Tech firms and governments can't be trusted to preserve digital history, which adds import to the role of new archives like the Egyptian 858 and Syrian Archive — 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.

Discussion: Global Investigative …, @mazmhussain, @shapingyouth and @digiphile

Tim Alberta / Politico:

Profile of Brent Bozell and his Media Research Center, which has chipped away at media credibility in the minds of conservatives for 30 years — Long before cries of ‘fake news,’ there was Brent Bozell and his Media Research Center. — You couldn't miss it.

Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Quinnipiac University poll finds nearly 40% of Americans, 80% of Republicans agree with Trump's tweet that “fake news media is the enemy of the American people”

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, NBC News and @pbump

Lucia Moses / Digiday:

Mic posts half as much on Facebook as it did a year ago and has stopped partner swaps, focusing instead on Apple News and Twitter to reach audiences — The millennial-aimed Mic has represented just about every digital media trend since it started seven years ago, distributing as far and wide …

Mathias Döpfner / Business Insider:

In Q&A after receiving the Axel Springer award for 2018, Bezos says he would never interfere in The Washington Post's coverage because it would feel “gross” — Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Business Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, recently sat down with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos …

Discussion: GeekWire, more at Techmeme »

Stephanie Russell-Kraft / Columbia Journalism Review:

Religion News Service EIC Jerome Socolovsky fired, staffers say publisher Tom Gallagher has attempted to influence editorial, two staffers resigned in protest — Early in the morning on Monday, April 23, members and followers of the “God beat” awoke to upsetting news.

Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:

Joy Reid pivots from hacking claims during monologue, says she doesn't believe she wrote the blog posts and apologizes for her past comments about LGBTQ people — MSNBC anchor Joy Reid on Saturday morning offered a lengthy apology for a series of homophobic blog posts attributed to her …

Discussion: New York Magazine, HuffPost, @jaspar, @harrymccracken and @bariweiss

New York Times:

What The New York Times got right and wrong about AIDS and gay issues in the 1980s and 1990s, through the eyes of six LGBTQ staffers — The New York Times had a spotty record of covering the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s — and gay culture in general. Times staffers reflect on the paper's past …