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The 2023 White House Correspondents’ Dinner took a more serious tone than in some previous years, highlighting the difficult work of journalism, though President Joe Biden and host Roy Wood Jr. still shared jabs targeting conservative figures like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Fox News.
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During his remarks, the president said the free press is “a pillar, maybe the pillar, of a free society, not the enemy,” and spoke of two American journalists facing danger abroad: Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was imprisoned in March in Russia on espionage charges, and Austin Tice, a freelance photojournalist who was kidnapped in Syria in 2012.
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