Oddly, Americans weren't eager to visit a D.C. museum dedicated to praising "journalism"
Tragically, we end 2019 with a sad story:
In Washington DC there's a museum dedicated to journalists. It's called the Newseum and opened on prime Washington real estate in 2008.
Because Americans recognize "journalists" as truth-tellers who will report the truth to us without bias, the place was wildly popular, drawing huge crowds eager to see the history of American journalism. And what better location that D.C., eh?
Tragically, eleven years after it opened its doors, this noble effort to show the noble, truthful, unbiased nature of mainstream "journalism" is coming to an end: the Newseum will close its doors Tuesday, having sold its building to a university for $372 million.
The journalists at CNN quickly explained that this wonderful effort to educate Americans about the importance of the Mainstream Media folded due to the awful economy under the eeevil Trump administration.
The journalists at the New York Times quickly explained that the Newseum was forced to close because of threats from "domestic terrorists" to fly a private jet into the building.
The journalists at the Washington Post--being local and thus better informed--explained that the closing was actually due to a plot by a shadowy right-wing supremacist group that pressured the university to offer to buy the building for such a huge price that the group running the Newseum simply couldn't refuse. The Post described this as "an example of economic bullying."
The journalists at the Associated Press said the Newseum was closing because conservative groups called for their cult-like followers to stay away from the Newseum.
Acclaimed journalist Rachel Maddow reported that the closing was due to Russian collusion, and that Adam Schiff had found an anonymous whistleblower who was eager to confirm this if the Republican-controlled senate would let him testify at Trump's senate trial.
Surely one of these reasons must be right. Wait...they may all have some part in the closing, but just not in the way any of the "journalists" had in mind.
(Source here.)
In Washington DC there's a museum dedicated to journalists. It's called the Newseum and opened on prime Washington real estate in 2008.
Because Americans recognize "journalists" as truth-tellers who will report the truth to us without bias, the place was wildly popular, drawing huge crowds eager to see the history of American journalism. And what better location that D.C., eh?
Tragically, eleven years after it opened its doors, this noble effort to show the noble, truthful, unbiased nature of mainstream "journalism" is coming to an end: the Newseum will close its doors Tuesday, having sold its building to a university for $372 million.
The journalists at CNN quickly explained that this wonderful effort to educate Americans about the importance of the Mainstream Media folded due to the awful economy under the eeevil Trump administration.
The journalists at the New York Times quickly explained that the Newseum was forced to close because of threats from "domestic terrorists" to fly a private jet into the building.
The journalists at the Washington Post--being local and thus better informed--explained that the closing was actually due to a plot by a shadowy right-wing supremacist group that pressured the university to offer to buy the building for such a huge price that the group running the Newseum simply couldn't refuse. The Post described this as "an example of economic bullying."
The journalists at the Associated Press said the Newseum was closing because conservative groups called for their cult-like followers to stay away from the Newseum.
Acclaimed journalist Rachel Maddow reported that the closing was due to Russian collusion, and that Adam Schiff had found an anonymous whistleblower who was eager to confirm this if the Republican-controlled senate would let him testify at Trump's senate trial.
Surely one of these reasons must be right. Wait...they may all have some part in the closing, but just not in the way any of the "journalists" had in mind.
(Source here.)
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