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News Legends Urge White House Journos to Stand Up to Trump

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 16: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on April 16, 2026 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump is traveling to Las Vegas, Nevada to promote the tax cuts he signed into law in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” ahead of the midterm election.  Tomorrow he will deliver remarks at a Turning Point USA event in Phoenix, Arizona.  (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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More than 250 journalists are calling for President Donald Trump to be confronted directly over his attacks on press freedom when he attends the White House Correspondents’ dinner this week for the first time in a decade.

In a sharply worded open letter to the White House Correspondents’ Association, broadcast veterans such as Dan Rather, Sam Donaldson, and Peter Maer have joined hundreds of other reporters in arguing that the glitzy event should be used to mount a “forceful defense” against Trump’s “systematic, sustained, and unprecedented attacks.”

TV legend Dan Rather was one of the signatories to the open letter. / Steven FerdmanGetty Images

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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