media organizationses bring their advertisers, bring the stars to impress the advertisers.know, but it's a different way the whole thing operates. >> tom brokaw has said he doesn't like the turn with which this dinner has taken, and then i had on our good friend and your colleague cynic, dana mill bangs. here's what he recently wrote. >> lost in this cozy celebration of wealth and fame is the journalistic notion of holding the powerful to account without fear or favor. he's not the first to suggest that -- >> there's something unseemly about trying to impress each other, but have i the stars there, in places that used to be reserved for journalists, basically. there are a lot of rank-and-file journalists that can no longer go. there's the display of this that is kind of unseemly, but at the same time it's one night a year. >> it's a very fun night. >> and they always remind you the proceeds go towards scholarships. >> absolutely. >> it ghot big applause. you say one wealthy hand feeds the other in this case, which then begs the question -- who is running the show? is it hol