Tomorrow Night: White House Correspondents' Dinner, AKA nerd prom (with video flashbacks)

Written by Karl Frisch

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Media Matters' Joe Strupp has been covering developments surrounding this weekend's White House Correspondent's Association Dinner, otherwise known as “nerd prom” by beltway types. You can follow the insidery festivities on CSPAN starting at 8pm ET on Saturday night.

For those of you on Twitter, folks will be tweeting all weekend under a few hashtags: #nerdprom, #whca and #whcd.

You can take a look back at past year's events courtesy of CSPAN's incredible video library:

2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000

1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993

The dinner is often criticized because it gives off the perception that members of the press are partying it up with the very people they report on. In fact, the New York Times stopped attending the dinner for that very reason says Times' Jeff Zeleny:

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