TOM BROKAW: WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER HURTING THE PRESS:

He said the annual black-tie affair, which features Washington reporters and editors drinking, joking and partying with Hollywood stars and the city’s top lawmakers — including the president — is contributing to the public’s mistrust of the media.

“If there’s ever an event that separates the press from the people they’re supposed to be serving, symbolically, it is that one.” he said.

Nahh, asking the president-elect to raise gasoline prices via additional taxes immediately after an economic meltdown is a much more concrete sign of how distanced the media have become from their audiences, as Tom himself did in December of 2008.