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We’re not done trying to end the White House Correspondents Dinner. Breitbart’s examination of the non-profit’s filings with the IRS reveals that though the organization claims its annual blowout is vital for funding journalism scholarships, last year just 13.4 percent of the proceeds went to students.
Either the dinner itself is getting more expensive or fewer people are attending, because that percentage has been getting worse over the years to where faculty from one of the schools, whose students benefit from the scholarship, calls the whole thing, “utter worthlessness,” in a series of scathing tweets.
White House Correspondents’ Association Exposed: Regularly Spends About 85% of WHCD Revenue on Annual Party, Not Scholarships
[T]he dinner cost $553,719 to put on, and generated $806,250 in ticket sales and donations. (A detailed accounting of the 2018 event isn’t yet available.) Less than half of the contributions—$108,000—went to 25 scholarships; the rest went to general operating expenses like the organization’s searchable pool report archive or programming like panels with former White House secretaries. And the WHCA as a whole netted just over $29,000 for the fiscal year ending in October 2017.
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$452,817 was spent on the venue and food, $24,191 on host Hasan Minhaj and other entertainment, and $76,711 for the percent of the executive director’s salary spent working on the dinner, as well as payments to vendors and event staff for a total of $553,719.
In 2016, it was even worse. The Washington Post reported the annual dinner was “nearly the entire source of [the association’s] annual revenue of around $600,000.” That year, the association awarded “about $77,500 to 18 students,” Money‘s Kaitlin Mulhere reported. “That’s small change compared to the incredible amount of money spent on and around what’s been dubbed D.C.’s Nerd Prom,” she added.
At just 12.9 percent of its estimated revenue, the WHCA’s 2016 scholarship payout was down from the 21.5 percent spent in 2014, which was also down from 26 percent in 2013 and nearly 60 percent in 2009, according to the Washingtonian.
So basically this is a bunch of leftists jerking each other off at a nice dinner where they get drunk and mock everyone who doesn't think like them.
Losers.
originally posted by: angeldoll
a reply to: DBCowboy
So basically this is a bunch of leftists jerking each other off at a nice dinner where they get drunk and mock everyone who doesn't think like them.
Losers.
And here we have another brilliant commentary.
*Donald Trump is ripping this country to shreds. People who are susceptible to manipulation are starting to get creepy with their projection.
So basically this is a bunch of leftists jerking each other off at a nice dinner where they get drunk and mock everyone who doesn't think like them.
YAY!
We agree!
I think the more we expose bullcrap "charities" like this one, the more people can become aware.
originally posted by: angeldoll
a reply to: DBCowboy
So basically this is a bunch of leftists jerking each other off at a nice dinner where they get drunk and mock everyone who doesn't think like them.
Losers.
And here we have another brilliant commentary.
But you see, I don't care what they do. If they have a party and enjoy it, who cares. I just don't think it's interesting enough to be televised, and don't understand why they thought it was. They blundered. Let them have a little private soirée if they want. Who cares.
originally posted by: angeldoll
a reply to: DBCowboy
Who cares.
originally posted by: Illumimasontruth
a reply to: DBCowboy
Sadly, this is the manner in which most of the big name charity organizations operate.
My oldest sister tried working in management for several before she settled in at a big megachurch, taking a hefty cut in pay.
Some quick digging around will show this is par for the course. Probably most often better off donating to lesser known charities or finding more direct ways to help those who may need it.
The WHCA supports several scholarships aimed at encouraging a new generation of reporters. It is for this that we host the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, which draws luminaries from politics, business, media, Hollywood and elsewhere to help the White House press corps raise money to give crucial financial assistance to journalism students at several institutions across the country.
James Finkelstein, chairman of the Hill, announced in a letter to Thomma Tuesday that his organization will no longer partake in the dinner moving forward because “in short, there’s simply no reason for us to participate in something that casts our profession in a poor light.”
Bill Grueskin, a faculty member at the Columbia Journalism School, one of the schools partnered with the WHCA’s scholarship program, tweeted on Sunday about the “utter worthlessness” of the dinner and the “fiction” that its “vital for the cause of journalism education.”