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Media: Journalism’s latest self-congratulatory monument to itself, the Newseum, opens | Les Sillars

WASHINGTON, D.C.— The news industry's latest and greatest monument to itself, the Newseum, opened April 11. The six-story, $450 million project sits near the intersection of Constitution and Pennsylvania avenues, with a clear sight line to the Capitol just a few blocks away. A 74-foot-high marble slab engraved with the text of the First Amendment hangs out over the sidewalk. Inside, its 14 galleries are packed with fascinating collections of text, images, videos, and artifacts.

They range from 3,000-year-old Sumerian tablets to a chunk of the communications antenna from the World Trade Center's north tower to an impressive collection of historical newspapers to 27 hours worth of short videos. These cover everything from media bias to sports coverage to New York Times news fabricator Jayson Blair to journalists murdered for their work to the techno-future of journalism, with lots of attention to the First Amendment. It is, in a word, overwhelming.

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