I went to the New Newseum in DC last week. Impressive building and location, with a great view of the Capitol. Some amazing news-related displays, including Don Bole’s car, and the TV antenna from the top of the World Trade Center. In the 911 display, they had a tribute to a photographer who died when the second tower fell. His crushed cameras were on display - pretty heart-wrenching. Anyone else been there?
I haven’t been yet, but I’d love to go. History of media is a professional interest of mine, and I’ve been waiting for quite some time for this. We’ll probably take a weekend to go down to see it.
Robin
Wasn’t there some sort of movement to boycott the opening for some reason?
I went last month with my son’s class, and I wasn’t looking forward to it (fretting over all the Smithsonians we could have gone to instead) but it turned out to be really neat. It was still unfinished so a lot of stuff wasn’t opened yet, like the section with Pulitzer prize-winning photographs, which I would have liked to have seen.
I liked the display of the front pages of newspapers from all over the world on Sept 12, 2001. And there’s a long wall displaying today’s front page from one newspaper in every state and from newspapers in lots of different countries.
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I went to the New Newseum in DC last week. Impressive building and location, with a great view of the Capitol. Some amazing news-related displays, including Don Bole’s car, and the TV antenna from the top of the World Trade Center. In the 911 display, they had a tribute to a photographer who died when the second tower fell. His crushed cameras were on display - pretty heart-wrenching. Anyone else been there?
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OK, who is Don Bole, and why would his car be on display? (My Google search came up empty.)
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OK, who is Don Bole, and why would his car be on display? (My Google search came up empty.)
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Because I’m a moron. It’s Bolles:Don Bolles - Wikipedia
I used to work directly across the street from the Newseum (back when it was in Roslyn, VA), and would head over there all the time. I haven’t been to DC in a few years, so never made it to the new location, but imagine it’s just as great. Man I miss that place!
Some photos:
When I was a junior in college, one of our journalism professors took a group of us to DC to visit his friend at USA Today and the Newseum. I remember thinking it was pretty cool, and inspiring (this was pre-9/11).
Oddly enough, the only specific thing I remember was that I purchased a small ashtray with a licensed Yellow Submarine picture on the bottom from their gift shop. This was my “main” ashtray when I was still smoking, and it always amused me that I had to go to a news museum in DC to get myself a decent Beatles ashtray.