I visited the Newseum around the time it opened in 2008 and wrote about it on these pages. See Fun at the Newseum.
At that time they had multiple exhibits consisting of videos of newscasts. They had a room dedicated to news coverage of the 9/11/2001 attack on the twin towers. And they had a few physical artifacts such as a chunk of the Berlin wall and a headless statue of Lenin.
But it's hard to imagine what artifacts might fit in a museum dedicated to news production. Not to worry. Ben Jacobs is donating his broken glasses. What a get!
Ben Jacobs, you will recall, is the fellow who exclaimed, "You broke my glasses," after a tussle with Montana politician Greg Gianforte. The rest of us laughed it off, but in the age of Trump resistance by the main stream media, anything that could even remotely hurt Trump is considered good news to them. The Newseum curators must be absolutely giddy over their newest acquisition. One has to wonder, though, what to make of Newseum visitors such a display might draw.
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