Donald Trump has said he will not attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, breaking with an annual tradition in which the US president attends a light-hearted roast held by journalists and attended by celebrities. Photo: AFP Donald Trump has said he will not attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, breaking with an annual tradition in which the US president attends a light-hearted roast held by journalists and attended by celebrities. Photo: AFP
Donald Trump has said he will not attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, breaking with an annual tradition in which the US president attends a light-hearted roast held by journalists and attended by celebrities. Photo: AFP
Keith B. Richburg
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Asian Angle by Keith B. Richburg

Trump’s media war: straight from the playbook of communist China

The US is losing the moral authority to speak out the next time a journalist is arrested, a newspaper shut, or foreign correspondent deported

Keith B. Richburg
Keith B. Richburg

Updated: 2:55pm, 20 Jul, 2018

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Donald Trump has said he will not attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, breaking with an annual tradition in which the US president attends a light-hearted roast held by journalists and attended by celebrities. Photo: AFP Donald Trump has said he will not attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, breaking with an annual tradition in which the US president attends a light-hearted roast held by journalists and attended by celebrities. Photo: AFP
Donald Trump has said he will not attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, breaking with an annual tradition in which the US president attends a light-hearted roast held by journalists and attended by celebrities. Photo: AFP
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Keith B. Richburg

Keith B. Richburg

Professor Keith B. Richburg, a former Washington Post correspondent, is Director of The University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre.