Posted on 12/05/2014 9:58:42 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Newseum is becoming a breaking news-eum this month as it prepares to exhibit artifacts from the protests and news coverage in Ferguson, Mo., while that story continues to unfold.
Sharon Shahid, the Newseum’s online managing editor — call her a deadline curator — was on the ground in the simmering St. Louis suburb shortly before the announcement last week that the grand jury would not indict officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown on Aug. 9.
Shahid collected a press pass and two rubber pellet balls from a police stun grenade donated by Stephanie Lecci, a newscast producer for St. Louis Public Radio. The pellets date to the night of Aug. 17, when police used tear gas to break up huge crowds. Lecci’s colleague at the station, Nancy Fowler, gave Shahid her notebook, where she scribbled “31 arrests” and “reports of gunfire.”
Shahid spoke to David Carson, photographer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, who made photos of people looting a convenience store during the first wave of intense protests days after Brown was killed. He fell to the ground in a scuffle with a man in a group near the store who objected to him taking pictures. Shahid collected Carson’s notebook and torn jeans.
“Those will be very good artifacts to have to show the risks journalists take in covering a story like this,” Shahid said....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
If one makes it to DC, from the forty-odd things to see....I’d rate the Newsmuseum near the absolute bottom. I lived there for 3.5 years and made a trip over to see it one Saturday. It’s roughly $20 for entry, and I considered the show area to be awful marginal and not worth visiting unless you were some library science graduate.
As for Ferguson’s entry as a show item at the museum...one might question if anyone in Ferguson ever read the local newspaper or the various accounts of what happened that afternoon.
The Newseum is kind of an interesting museum, but in typical liberal fashion, it’s the most expensive tourist attraction in DC.
A whole lot of it is self-aggrandizement to the journalist. Yes, the soldiers were brave, but just look at the JOURNALIST who was embedded with them.
That kind of stuff.
Do they have a section in the museum on how to properly throw bottles filled with urine at police officers? Or were there none left over to put on display?
Or how to set a car on fire so it burns completely.
Or how to kill someone with a maximum amount of pain by beating him to death with hammers.
Or how to set a human body ablaze after the person has been murdered.
How about the risks to the entire country when these foolhardy journalists lie, encourage riots and stir the pot?
Ferguson is no longer the name of a city. It’s now a symbol. Just like they made Katrina a symbol.
Madness.
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