Newseum tickets: $20

Save that double-sawbuck, says Slate:

http://www.slate.com/id/2183936

 

Wheatfield, James Buchanan's homestead in Lancaster, PA. is inexpensive and they're really glad when anyone visits.
This is an Al Neuharth's production, isn't it?
Fuckabuncha buscapade.

 

Hey, slate says it has a 4-D Time Travel experience.

What the hell.

I think I'm gonna go and then travel back to before I paid the $20 before I leave.

 

Travel back to the days when people actually gave a fuck!

 

They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em

 

And it would give you directions to the Newseum.

 

Holy crap, that's funny. You just made my morning, BYH.

 

This, to me, sums it all up pretty nicely:

Unlike other museums, whose curators have collected, pruned, and rarefied their collections over decades or centuries, the Newseum has had to invent whole categories of news artifacts to fill this Taj Mahal for journalism. Like the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, which resides just a couple of blocks away on the Mall, the Newseum suffers from the fact that curatorial power is invested in the home team. Indian tribes—and not museum professionals—ultimately got to decide what to place in the hall designed to honor them. Independent tribes of self-glorifying journalists didn't choose what to stuff inside the Newseum, but they didn't have to, because the organization was all too ready to do their bidding. You don't think News Corp. and the Sulzbergers would lend their names and money to an enterprise that would sink a shiv into the press, do you?

It's not a museum. It's an infomercial.

 

That is fabulous. Definite post of the year worthy.

Oh, and $20? NO WAY.

 

To the lunkheads who came up with a $20 charge to get in, I leave you with this thought:

 

I wonder if there will be a Hall of Shame with the Dewey Defeats Truman headline, Kerry picks Gephart for VP headline and the various scandals that have hit the industry through the years.

 

You mean the Jayson Blair/Janet Cooke Hall of Shame?