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‘A slow-motion disaster’: Journalism museum in talks about possible building sale [Newseum]
Washington Post ^
| February 7, 2018
| Peggy McGlone and Manuel Roig-Franzia
Posted on 02/08/2018 7:26:32 AM PST by C19fan
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Walked by the place plenty of times but never felt the need to check it out. The place charges $25 per person admission. No thanks. That building is prime real estate in DC.
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posted on
02/08/2018 7:26:32 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
So these people think anyone cares about their propaganda throughout the years? The only way it’s useful if you’re researching a book about how bias and political aspirations changed world events over time!
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posted on
02/08/2018 7:32:44 AM PST
by
gr8eman
(Facts and evidence are bourgeois constructs weaponized by patriarchal penis-people)
To: C19fan
I’ve been. It wasn’t worth it, and I regret patronizing a museum to an industry that has become so spectacularly corrupt. I hope they bulldoze it.
To: C19fan
Around 2012, I paid the $25 entry fee, and walked through.
I felt silly afterwards. There’s really nothing there of consequence. I did have a cup of coffee up on the roof area but it’s a total waste of money and time. They would be better off selling the property and just disbanding the whole museum entirely.
To: C19fan
I'm mildly curious if the have an "editor" display and show at one time in history news outlets used to have them but now they have been replaced by spellcheck programs.
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posted on
02/08/2018 7:37:20 AM PST
by
BipolarBob
(At one time I held the world record as the worlds youngest person on the planet.)
To: C19fan
Heh. Journalism died shortly after Obama’s first election. It is only fitting that the museum of a dead profession also dies.
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posted on
02/08/2018 7:39:33 AM PST
by
TheGeezer
To: C19fan
Same here. Also the monstrosity purporting to be an African American museum.
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posted on
02/08/2018 7:43:03 AM PST
by
OpusatFR
To: TheGeezer
Museums are for Old stuff.
News should be New.
(PS, There is nothing new under the Sun.)
To: C19fan
Great idea for a museum =
Cool Stuff Found in Garbage Dumps
Garbage found in journalism? Not so much.
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posted on
02/08/2018 7:49:18 AM PST
by
StAntKnee
(Add your own danged sarc tag)
To: C19fan
Today good people in our government are releasing declassified texts and other incredible information showing obvious crimes and collusion at the highest levels of our secret agencies.
The press is coordinating and trying to stop the release of this information and/or moderating. They are not journalists, they are political party!
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posted on
02/08/2018 7:52:34 AM PST
by
bigtoona
(Make America Great Again! America First!)
To: C19fan
To: C19fan
Plenty of dead malls it could relocate to.
To: martin_fierro
I liked the newseum. Journalists, bot so much.
To: C19fan
I went there a few years ago and took my grandsons. We really enjoyed it. They got to pick the background of which broadcast (weather, news etc) they wanted to be a commentator for, handed a microphone and read off a teleprompter and were filmed. Then they were shown the film and were able to download it if they wished. Lots of laughs and fun.
My favorite exhibit was the award winning photographs.
I'm really into history and could have spent much more time there than we did. I'm sorry to hear that they're closing. I think the entry price has hurt them a lot.
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posted on
02/08/2018 8:03:49 AM PST
by
Texan
To: C19fan
Ted Turner should buy all the crap and move it to storage in Atlanta. If he really cares...
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posted on
02/08/2018 8:10:43 AM PST
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: morphing libertarian
...bot so much.
I knew it! RUSSIA!!!
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posted on
02/08/2018 8:10:47 AM PST
by
BlackbirdSST
(Kate's Wall, build it!)
To: BlackbirdSST
Russia and auto spell. LOL
To: C19fan
Trump should buy it and turn it into an extension of the Trump Hotel.
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posted on
02/08/2018 8:43:47 AM PST
by
sphinx
To: C19fan
Does the Museum house the Fake Newscaster Hall of Fame?
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posted on
02/08/2018 9:02:34 AM PST
by
Buckeye Battle Cry
(Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
To: C19fan
Buckead’s famous FR post is on display there. Seriously. I saw it last year and knew what it was from 20 feet away.
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posted on
02/08/2018 12:08:54 PM PST
by
henkster
(Monsters from the Id.)
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