The World's Most Useless Douchebag -- co-author of the infamous sentence, "Herewith, a brief primer" -- decides to do some real reporting . By visiting the Newseum : Like the nearby Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the Newseum -- Washington's museum dedicated to journalism -- displays dinosaurs. . . . Behind a long rack of preserved, historic front pages, there is a kind of...
Like the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the Newseum – Washington's museum dedicated to journalism – displays dinosaurs. On a long wall near the entrance, the front pages of newspapers from around the country are electronically posted each morning – the artifacts of a declining industry. Inside, the high-tech exhibits are nostalgic for a lower-tech time when banner headlines...
This is slightly off topic, but something that I think is important enough to mention to all of the readers of the site. Read the full press release after the jump. USA NETWORK AND TOM BROKAW TO CO-HOST FIRST-EVER CHARACTERS UNITE NATIONAL TOWN HALL ON HEALING AMERICA’S DIVISIONS Brokaw to Moderate Panel of Prominent National Leaders from Government, Academia, Business, Media, the Arts and Non-Governmental...
Not much time for blogging here, but grabbing a few moments while my family is sleeping in. Sophia came home from college last night, Maddy is cantoring/singing for a wedding today. Samantha and Kip and the grandchildren are coming tomorrow. On Monday my son Zach will be received into...
WASHINGTON, DC (AP).- Museum visitors in Washington will get the chance to step into "Meet the Press" moderator Tim Russert's old NBC office, which has been reassembled at the Newseum . An exhibit opens Friday with the office recreated to look as it did in June 2008 when Russert died of a heart attack at age 58. The journalism museum will keep the office on display through 2010. Curators...
I don't know how many of you were deeply affected by the death of Tim Russert, but I can tell you that for me, it was a huge loss. Russert was the one journalist who really got me interested in politics and in media. Between him and my freshman civics teacher, they both got me to go down this path that I am on today, being a political junkie who writes constantly, analyzing the political issues of...
A grad student surprisingly acquired a large sum of money; unsurprisingly, he lacked the steely real-world survival instincts to keep it. A.P. writers used spy tactics to get hold of Going Rogue . Inevitablely, Lucky introduced an online store. The Newseum 's Tim Russert shrine opens. How the Atlantic and the Economist eneded up with startlingly similar covers. Goldman Sachs may be "doing God's...
sleepy jet-lagged feet, resting ...... ...... ...to DC and back {11.14 to 11.18} Case and I flew on a plane (super super early) on Saturday morning with dreams of smithsonians, fall foliage and monuments. It was four and a half magnificent days of squirrels, The National Cathedral , Wisconsin Avenue, Cactus Cantina , walking, a flea market within steps of our hotel, a city tour, patriotic music at...
The exhibit that has recreated Tim Russert's office is set to open at the Newseum in Washington, DC Friday. "Inside Tim Russert's Office" will take museum visitors inside Russert's office in the Washington bureau of NBC News, where he was bureau chief and moderator of "Meet the Press" until his sudden death in June 2008. The Newseum describes the exhibit highlights as follows :...
Washington, D.C.'s Newseum has opened an exhibit that contains an exact replica of the late Tim Russert's office at NBC.The NBC Washington bureau chief and legendary moderator of Meet the Press died in June 2008 of a heart attack at age 58.The office has been recreated to look as it did on the day he died, complete with family photos, favorite books and Buffalo Bills pennants. It will be on
This post includes spoilers for tonight's Newseum episode of Dinner Impossible . About two months ago, as members of the Newseum in Washington, we received notice that there was going to be a Food Network event with a special mystery chef. Other than that, we had no idea what to expect. At 6:30 they let people in to see the giant big screen in the lobby showing a Dinner Impossible logo. I was unfamiliar...
With news media organizations cutting back on their coverage of courts and other institutions, a new effort was launched today to help the press and public identify important federal appeals court rulings and cases. The American Bar Association's Standing Committee...
"Cases on Life Terms for Juveniles": You can view this past Saturday's broadcast of C-SPAN's "America & the Courts" online and on-demand by clicking here. Notwithstanding the title of this installment, the bulk of the broadcast (beginning at 23:40) consists...
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have too much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt (second inaugural address, 1937) Gray skies, billowing wind, and periods of harsh rain are slowly dissipating from the Washington D.C. [...]
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