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Posted by
MarkBurgress
138 days ago
- Average Rating: 4.5 with 4 vote(s)
(www.newseum.org)
Category: museums and institutions |
The idea in itself is a great one – a museum to celebrate newspapers and journalism, both historical and contemporary.
Print news has been one of the key shapers of our modern civilisation; both for the better and worse, and it's coverage that the latter angle will receive in this museum that worries me.
It's obvious that a great deal of big business money has flowed into this endeavor, with News Corporation and NBC news sponsoring the galleries of news history and news interactive respectively.
Why is that a profession of investigatory truth is now commonly regarding as one of the lowest rungs of the Western experience? A positive has flipped over to a negative.
Where did it all go wrong? Was it ever any different?
Will this museum ask questions like this?
Visit it and find out.
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This is the worlds newest and most expensive museum.
I read in todays paper that there will be a section on made up stories by journalism and that the part dedicated to the British press is called ***, Crime and Scandal, with front pages of the Sun and the Mirror.
If I have happen to find myself in Washington DC - unlikely - then I'll attend for a visit, or, alternatively, if curators would like to by me a flight ticket I'll happily review it for History Nexus ;)