Attending Tonight's MLRC Annual Dinner 2008: "The Presidency and the Press"

MBA General Counsel Ron Coleman and I are guests of Media/Professional Insurance at the 2008 Media Law Resource Center dinner at the Grand Hyatt in Manhattan. This is an amazing event and I am very excited to be going again this year.

Each year they have an after dinner panel discussion with fascinating guests. This year the topic is "The Presidency and the Press". The panelists are Michael Beschloss (Presidential Historian for NBC News), David Gergen (Presidential Advisor and CNN political analyst), and Joe Lockhart (Chief Spokesman for President Clinton and the Clinton Administration). The panel will be moderated by Martha Raddatz (Chief White House Correspondent for ABC News).

I went to this even in 2006 when the panel topic was "Reporting on National Security under Threat of Indictment". The panelists were Dana Priest (The Washington Post), David Remnick (The New Yorker) James Risen (The New York Times) and Pierre Thomas (ABC News). The moderator was scheduled to be Bob Schieffer of CBS News but he had to cancel at the last minute so Scott Pelly of CBS News filled in for him.

I will get home pretty late so probably will not blog about it tonight. I will, however, live blog the event via Twitter at http://twitter.com/robertcox.