Lindsay Lohan is going to Washington -- and no, it's not to testify before Congress against the overly aggressive and intrusive tactics of paparazzi.

The "Mean Girls" actress will appear at this Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. She will attend the event, which each year merges humor and politics, with her attorney, Shawn Holley, as guests of Fox News personality Greta Van Susteren and her husband, John Coale, the actress' publicist told TheWrap.

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Ensuring continued unfettered access to internet content is crucial to the emergence of competitive online video service, Barry Diller, chairman and senior executive of IAC, testified at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Tuesday morning.

“Net neutrality is absolutely mandatory, because there is no question that without it, you will see the absolute crushing of any competitive force,” Diller told the senators. “Incumbents have natural incentives to limit competitive threats,” Diller said. “Congress should be vigilant that the rules of the game favor entry, innovation and competition.”

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The old rules barring media companies from owning both a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same market are out of step and need to be changed, the National Association of Broadcasters argued in a filing to the Federal Communications Commission this week.

The comments came as the FCC is weighing whether or not to overhaul the nation’s media ownership regulations as part of a Congressionally mandated review of the rules it undertakes every four years.

The NAB is hoping the commission will loosen many of the restrictions currently in place, because it says that they prevent legacy media companies from competing in the...

“Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white First Lady?” actor Robert De Niro deadpanned during introductory remarks for First Lady Michelle Obama at a New York fundraiser Monday night. 

“Too soon, right?”

De Niro and his wife Grace Hightower (below) hosted the event at Locanda Verde, the restaurant the actor owns in TriBeCa.

In her remarks, Hightower said the First Lady had been subjected to “dissenting voices, and I’d like to say, vampire energies.” She went on to call Mrs. Obama...