--- title: WHCD: Read Transcript of Woodward And Bernstein Speeches description: At the White House Correspondents Dinner, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward gave advice to reporters covering the President Trump canonical: https://time.com/4760743/white-house-correspondents-dinner-woodward-bernstein-speech-2017/ author: Jennifer Calfas article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-30T13:48:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:40:18.962Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read What Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Said at the White House Correspondents' Dinner og:description: "Mr. President, the media is not fake news" og:url: https://time.com/4760743/white-house-correspondents-dinner-woodward-bernstein-speech-2017/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf511d088d1d7cfd6/6988cb4e0a4a22d87e9cdf57/woodward-bernstein.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2017 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read What Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Said at the White House Correspondents' Dinner twitter:description: "Mr. President, the media is not fake news" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf511d088d1d7cfd6/6988cb4e0a4a22d87e9cdf57/woodward-bernstein.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read the Advice Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Gave at the White House Correspondents' Dinner by [Jennifer Calfas](https://time.com/author/jennifer-calfas/) ## Jennifer Calfas Apr 30, 2017 1:48 PM UTC  Journalist Bob Woodward (L) and Carl Bernstein attend the 2017 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at Washington Hilton on April 29, 2017 in Washington, DC. Journalist Bob Woodward (L) and Carl Bernstein attend the 2017 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at Washington Hilton on April 29, 2017 in Washington, DC.Tasos Katopodis, Getty Images by [Jennifer Calfas](https://time.com/author/jennifer-calfas/) ## Jennifer Calfas Apr 30, 2017 1:48 PM UTC Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists [Bob Woodward](http://time.com/4730173/white-house-correspondents-dinner-woodward-bernstein/) and [Carl Bernstein](http://time.com/4697223/trump-nixon-comparisons/), known for uncovering former President Richard Nixon’s involvement in the Watergate scandal, have a message for [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4760589/climate-march-donald-trump-100-days/) — the media is not fake. The two iconic journalists offered guidance Saturday to reporters amid an increasingly bitter relationship between the Trump Administration and the press at the [White House Correspondents’ Dinner](http://time.com/4760719/white-house-correspondents-dinner-hasan-minhaj/) in Washington, D.C. The annual event was the first in decades that a president has skipped. Trump instead [held](http://time.com/4760560/donald-trump-100-days-profound-change/) a campaign-style rally in Pennsylvania to mark the 100th day of his presidency. But while Trump was not in attendance, Woodward still spoke directly to him: “Mr. President, the media is not fake news,” he said. The dogged duo used their experience uncovering the Watergate scandal to implore journalists to focus on their work now more than ever. “Our job is to put the best obtainable version of the truth out there, period,” he added. “Especially now.” Read Bernstein and Woodward’s full speeches below: **CARL BERNSTEIN:** --- > “” --- **BOB WOODWARD:** --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4760743/white-house-correspondents-dinner-woodward-bernstein-speech-2017/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4760743/white-house-correspondents-dinner-woodward-bernstein-speech-2017/"},"headline":"Read the Advice Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Gave at the White House Correspondents' Dinner","datePublished":"2017-04-30T13:48:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:40:18.962Z","description":"The reporting duo had a message for President Trump: \"The media is not fake news\"","url":"https://time.com/4760743/white-house-correspondents-dinner-woodward-bernstein-speech-2017/","keywords":["White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf511d088d1d7cfd6/6988cb4e0a4a22d87e9cdf57/woodward-bernstein.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jennifer Calfas","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jennifer-calfas/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf511d088d1d7cfd6/6988cb4e0a4a22d87e9cdf57/woodward-bernstein.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2017 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner - Arrivals","caption":"2017 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner - Arrivals","creditText":"Tasos Katopodis, Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4760743/white-house-correspondents-dinner-woodward-bernstein-speech-2017/","name":"Read the Advice Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Gave at the White House Correspondents' Dinner"}}]}] ```