With the Jonases and Johanssons of years past replaced by the likes of a ‘Snapchat star’, this year’s gathering of the press is short on red-carpet appeal Zip through the guest list of this year’s White House Correspondents Association dinner – the annual, awkward bear hug between the president and the press, which takes place on Saturday night – and you might find yourself wistful for the time President Barack Obama threatened to drone strike the Jonas Brothers.