If the GOP was smart, it would hold a counter-event/dinner on the exact SAME night someplace else - maybe in a different city. You could create a charity their own journalism scholarships at reliably conservative universities like Liberty or Hillsdale. And/or, you could create a troop support charity of some kind. But, to participate in this annual in-kind contribution to the DNC, is RIDICULOUS. It gives to the media and their partners-in-crime, a kind of legitimacy by participating. A counter-event would have another long-overdue effect - it would finally draw a BIG line in the sand that conservatives and Republicans can finally say in no uncertain terms - Hey media, you're wildly biased and we're not going to pretend otherwise anymore.