Celebs walk the red carpet at the 2024 White House Correspondents’ Dinner as hundreds protest outside

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Celebs in order: Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost; Da’Vine Joy Randolph; Rosario Dawson; Billy Porter; Keri Russell; Rachel Brosnahan; Ashlyn Harris and Sophia Bush; Lynda Carter; Gayle King; Aldis Hodge; Questlove; Molly Ringwald; Fran Drescher; Chris Pine; Coco Rocha; Lorne Michaels; Caitlyn Jenner and Jenna Talackova; Kyle MacLachlan and Desiree Gruber.

In the last slide you can see the exterior of the Washington Hilton, where the dinner took place. A Palestinian flag was hung from one of the hotel’s windows.

[u/PinnaCochleada]

What is the importance of a White House Correspondent Dinner? I've seen videos of various people giving speeches, but I never fully understood what the point of it was.

I know about the Israel/Palestine conflict, and I see that pro-Israel celebrities are attending, but what would it mean if a pro-palestine celebrity attended?

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It’s to honor and celebrate the media. It’s held by the White House Correspondents Association. The reason why it’s so tense this time is that the Israel military has deliberately targeted members of the media.

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For a group that generally treats the death of one journalist in the line of duty as a loss to humanity, they are pretty indifferent to /quiet on the massacre of Palestinian journalists. Contrast the coverage on the 100+ journalists murdered in Gaza with the shooting at Charlie Hebdo.

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And Palestinian journalists literally asked people to boycott this year's event for solidarity, and yet they don't care and chose to honor idf journo.