We visited the Freedom Forum's Newseum on Friday - a museum in Washington, DC, dedicated to journalism, news-gathering and the beautiful First Amendment.
Despite the 12,000-word hate-laden essay by the New York Times architecture review, it's a pretty amazing place. Six-stories is towering in DC and the Newseum succeeds in understanding journalism in the big picture - the good, the bad, and the ugly. There's even funny corrections and bad headlines posted in the bathroom.
We watched movies about digital media, the history of broadcast news and Pulitzer Prize winning photographs. We stood at a memorial to journalists who've died on the job - from Elijah Lovejoy in 1837 to the five journalists who've died this year. You could look journalist up on nearby computers and learn about their lives and deaths.
I teared up watching a two-minute feature about the news coverage on Sept. 11 from the seemingly accidental first plane crash to the towers falling: "There are no words," said Aaron Brown. Seriously.
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