“The breaking point for me was Lindsay Lohan,” Brokaw told
Politico’s Patrick Gavin during a recent interview in his office in the NBC News Rockefeller Plaza
headquarters in New York .
“She became a big star at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Give me a
break.”
According to Gavin, the veteran TV newsman’s vocal dissent after the dinner in
2012 was notable for a number of reasons.
First, Brokaw’s industry stature made him the most notable
media figure to criticize an annual event so precious to many of his colleagues
in the press corps. Second, Brokaw has standing beyond his long tenure as the
“Nightly News” anchor — he was once a White House correspondent during the
Watergate era. And lastly, his critique was purposeful, public and
unpredictable; he made a point to, seemingly out of nowhere, bash the WHCD on
“Meet the Press” just one week after the soiree, saying it was “time to
rethink” the occasion since it, in his words, “separates the press from the
people that they’re supposed to serve, symbolically.”
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