No Obama, No C-SPAN at Gridiron's Annual Dinner

President Obama won’t be at tomorrow evening’s Gridiron dinner– and neither will C-SPAN.

The Gridiron Club has rejected C-SPAN’s request to open the annual event to cameras.

Via Politico: “I understand and sympathize with your concern that maintenance of our dinner’s traditional off-the-record policy conflicts with and undercuts the desire of the press and the public to achieve greater access and openness to government,” Carl P. Leubsdorf, the club’s secretary, wrote to C-SPAN chairman and CEO Brian Lamb.

“[W]e continue to believe that the admission of camera coverage would negatively impact the ambience of our dinner and damage its unique character.

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