PREVIEW: The Media Builds
a Monument to Itself

Posted by Dennis G. Jerz on May 1, 2008 9:09 AM | | Comments (0) ~
The Weekly Standard does not like The Newseum.
Our terrific country offers lots of ways to make a living, but with the possible exceptions of movie acting and architecture, only modern journalism would have the nerve to celebrate itself with something as gaudy and improbable as the Newseum.


Categories: Aesthetics , Culture , Design , Essays , Journalism , Rhetoric

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