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WATCH: House of Cards Parody At White House Correspondents’ Dinner

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night featured a House of Cards parody video starring Kevin Spacey reenacting his role from the Netflix miniseries as South Carolina Congressman Frank Underwood along with a host of politicians and journalists including New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith.

WATCH: Barack Obama At The White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Barack Obama served as the opening act for Conan O’Brien at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Watch the President crack jokes to the assembled crowd of journalists and celebrities.

DD on CNN: Boston Globe Columnist on Working the Cops in Bombing Story

Howard Kurtz talks to the Globe’s Kevin Cullen on CNN’s Reliable Sources about covering a story where you know the police, firefighters and first responders involved.

Can Koch Brothers Turn Major Urban Newspapers Conservative?

The rumblings that the right wing billionaire Koch Brothers will try to buy the print assets of the Tribune Company and acquire some of the biggest newspapers in the country are growing louder.

Garance Franke-Ruta of the Atlantic is confident though that the Koch Brothers can only do minimal damage to the papers that they might acquire, which include the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Baltimore Sun. In Franke-Ruta’s opinion:

American newspapers originated as physical objects designed to be distributed in defined, geographically constrained regions. They originated as urban creations because only in urban areas was there enough commerce, enough politics — enough news — for them to grow, and enough readers to make them strong. There are newspapers based in rural areas, but it is hard for them to grow large, both because of the lack of regional news, and because of the difficulty of getting the physical object of the paper to enough people to scale it. Newspapers have historically depended on high densities of people for their existence (see Discovering The News: A Social History Of American Newspapers, for a really wonderful and fun history of the form).

Newspapers have also, at least until rather recently, demanded that their writers know a region. Not before they got hired, but once they started to work in it. Papers may have hired from diverse regional backgrounds (and newspapers draw from a more geographically and educationally diverse population of reporters than Rubin thinks they do), but what they demanded of their workers is that they become regional specialists. That’s what running people through the Metro Desk was designed to do. Until fairly recently, to report on national politics, you had to get to know the problems of the city or of dense close-in suburbs first. You had to take a crash course in the culture of the city and the region in which your newspaper was based.