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Self-Indulgent Journalistic Shrine to Itself to Close After Hemorrhaging Money
newsbusters.org ^ | 1/25/2019 | Scott Whitlock

Posted on 01/25/2019 10:17:01 AM PST by rktman

The Sun reported that the $500 million building will shut down at the end of 2019, finally ending the saga of a Washington D.C. museum that was always in debt and had five chief executives in the last nine years. In 2017, the Washington Post announced it was on “death watch” after a “stunning decline.”

One thing that didn’t help the Newseum is the expensive ticket prices. It costs $21 for adults (down from a high of $25) and almost $13 for children. In a city of free museums, this isn’t exactly enticing.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 555pennsylvaniaavenw; districtofcolumbia; johnshopkins; newseum; newsies; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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1 posted on 01/25/2019 10:17:01 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

NON PRINT:

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2019/01/25/self-indulgent-journalistic-shrine-itself-close-after


2 posted on 01/25/2019 10:17:19 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

The Newseum has Buckhead’s FR post on display in the exhibit on the rise of popular internet media.


3 posted on 01/25/2019 10:19:24 AM PST by henkster (Monsters from the Id.)
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To: rktman

Somebody kept sticking “Fake” notes on the museum pieces....


4 posted on 01/25/2019 10:19:27 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: G Larry

Are you joking? lol


5 posted on 01/25/2019 10:21:28 AM PST by Conserv
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To: rktman

HA HA, the Ministry of Propaganda’s shrine to itself goes out of business!


6 posted on 01/25/2019 10:23:05 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: rktman

7 posted on 01/25/2019 10:23:52 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Conserv

You think that’s “fake” news? LOL!


8 posted on 01/25/2019 10:24:00 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: G Larry

I visited the museum a few years ago. I told the front desk that it was way too self-congratulatory and appeared they were way too important. Good riddance.


9 posted on 01/25/2019 10:24:38 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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Aw, man, that’s too bad. And there I was all primed to part with a sawbuck to see a bunch of narcissists staring at themselves in a mirror. Guess I’ll have to stick to the awards shows.


10 posted on 01/25/2019 10:29:02 AM PST by Billthedrill
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Yes, Joking......as far as I know.....?

But I'd pay $21 to do it!

11 posted on 01/25/2019 10:34:28 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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The shutdown notice should be read into the Congressional Register.....to memorialize it for eternity.


12 posted on 01/25/2019 10:35:39 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: henkster

He is featured in a new documentary called “Black Eye” about that whole smear attempt.


13 posted on 01/25/2019 10:42:25 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: G Larry

It would be worth it


14 posted on 01/25/2019 10:44:27 AM PST by Conserv
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To: rktman

Ever since it began advertising on DC-area radio, I’ve made it a point of honor to never darken their doorway.


15 posted on 01/25/2019 10:44:38 AM PST by Pecos (These are the times that try menÂ’s souls)
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To: rktman

We went there once at the behest of our daughter-in-law. What an enormous waste of time and money. It was not worthy of free admission much less $25 per head.

Like a massively giant mausoleum extolling the fake media, past and present.

Good riddance.


16 posted on 01/25/2019 10:59:47 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

Did the Newseum have a fake newsroom wing, as a tribute to the media propagandists?


17 posted on 01/25/2019 11:00:53 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: rktman

Got the impression from the Hopkins article that it is MOVING. ??? “Current location”.

Oh, and frankly, I wish many of those other museums would close, too. The freebies, too.


18 posted on 01/25/2019 11:03:00 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Pecos

It makes you wonder why they were advertising. Trying to drum up business? Business just not very good?


19 posted on 01/25/2019 11:17:25 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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***In a city of free museums,***

If I remember correctly, most museums used to be free until the government decided vagrants and bums had as much right in the museums as everyone else.

Now the museums I remember, which once were free, charge a fee and this fee keeps the bums out.

So now they infest the local libraries. Laying around, sleeping, spreading bed bugs in the libraries...


20 posted on 01/25/2019 11:27:04 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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