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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The Newseum has Buckhead’s FR post on display in the exhibit on the rise of popular internet media.
Somebody kept sticking “Fake” notes on the museum pieces....
Are you joking? lol
HA HA, the Ministry of Propaganda’s shrine to itself goes out of business!
You think that’s “fake” news? LOL!
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.
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.
But I'd pay $21 to do it!
The shutdown notice should be read into the Congressional Register.....to memorialize it for eternity.
He is featured in a new documentary called “Black Eye” about that whole smear attempt.
It would be worth it
Ever since it began advertising on DC-area radio, I’ve made it a point of honor to never darken their doorway.
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.
Did the Newseum have a fake newsroom wing, as a tribute to the media propagandists?
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.
It makes you wonder why they were advertising. Trying to drum up business? Business just not very good?
***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...
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