
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.”

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