https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/05/27/heartbreaking-video-of-the-day-watch-as-the-newseum-is-torn-down-piece-by-piece/
As Twitchy reported earlier, the media were quite thrilled by President Biden’s answer to their query of what kind of ice cream he ordered. When Biden replied, “chocolate chocolate chip,” reporters vocally expressed their approval. We best like the way Mollie Hemingway’s friend described it:
Mollie ~ As my friend says, "Watching the press handle Joe Biden is like watching a family try to help a three-year-old win Candyland." You watch this clip and tell me that's not right. http://realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/02/01/mollue_hemingway_watching_the_press_handle_joe_biden_is_like_watching_a_baby_play_candyland.html
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How appropriate is it then, that journalism’s heartbreaking video of the day isn’t the press cooing over the president’s choice of ice cream, but rather the dismantling of the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
Joe St. George ~ Your journalism heartbreaking video of the day: the Newseum being torn down piece by piece on Pennsylvania Ave.
http://twitter.com/i/status/1397979083758309388
We knew it was the beginning of the end when the Newseum gift shop started (and then stopped) selling “Fake News” T-shirts, and when journalism professor Jeff Jarvis saw a MAGA hat in there, he knew it was time to “take down the whole damned store” until the museum pulled back and considered why it exists.
Now it doesn’t.
@IdaFlo ~ Heartbreaking?
Aldous Huxley's Ghost™ ~ Oh look! A metaphor for what's happened to actual journalism over the past few decades.
Wittorical ~ Do they have this in 4k? I’d like to watch with my family tonight.
Air-on ~ I’m sorry this is happening to you.
Nathan E. Yates, M.S.F. ~ Remember when the Berlin Wall was torn down? I have the same feeling watching the Newseum fall.
We haven’t been this moved since we saw Seattle’s mayor bulldoze CHOP.
Matthew Harkrider ~ They can just replace it with a dumpster fire and no one would know the difference.
Malaise 2.0 Honkitude ~ Maybe if it hadn't been built on lies, it wouldn't have to be torn down.
J.T. Gilgo, Wild West Pimp ~ Thoughts and prayers.
Jeffrey Collins ~ When are the fireworks?
Kelly ~ Heartbreaking for sure. This video needs a laugh track.
Goaterhead ~
No, that other doctor, GFY ~ They're going to put a comedy club there, so nothing is going to change.
lndian Bronson ~ It's okay, I got the most valuable thing out of it there was ...
Paul Morelli ~ Well, in 2015 the museum took in $59 million in revenue & LOST $2.5 million. Some people made a lot of money & they did not give a shit about this heartbreak.
It had gross revenue of $59 million and LOST $2.5 million???!!! WTF?! Was BLM's Patrisse Kunta Kinte Cullors runnin' the place?
The Washington Post had reported in 2018 when they were considering closing the Newseum:
In 2016, the museum operated at a substantial loss, spending $8.2 million more than the $55.7 million in revenue it generated, according to previously unreported tax documents. That was more than triple the shortfall from the previous year. The museum has posted an annual deficit every year since it opened in its current location, tax records show.
And tickets were $25 per person?
Judge Smails ~ To be converted into a center where journalists can learn to code and build solar panels. Feel good story of the day!
I hear the Gulag train a comin... ~ Journalism died long before this building was torn down.
Johnny Utah ~ The symbolism of those two guys high up on a tower doing nothing while journalism crumbles is not lost on me.
It's pretty hilarious.
Johannes de Silentio ~
Not_Papa_P ~ I'm not sorry this is happening to you. Your industry has beclowned yourselves.
Old Tom Morris ~ Quite ironic, really. The only place one might find actual journalism today, is in a museum.
ArmaliteAR-180B ~ Is there a longer video? I need more than 13 seconds to Toobin to this.
It’s a damn shame, but after the “Fake News” T-shirt debacle, the whole place had to come down.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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