[Speaking of Decadent and depraved-Ed]
Ayhoo, the Washington Post tells us that the media's monument to itself is in deep do-do:
Two months shy of its 10th anniversary in a glass-and-steel showpiece on Washington’s most prestigious thoroughfare, executives at the struggling Newseum will meet Thursday with a top real estate firm to explore options that include selling their building or moving to another location.Here's a doozy:
The survival of the Newseum — which charges one of the city’s highest museum entrance fees at up to almost $25 per person — has long been in doubt as it has sought to compete for visitors and donors in a capital awash in free cultural institutions. In 2016, the museum operated at a substantial loss, spending $8.2 million more than the $55.7 million in revenue it generated, according to previously unreported tax documents. That was more than triple the shortfall from the previous year. The museum has posted an annual deficit every year since it opened in its current location, tax records show.
Twenty-five dollars.
[America?-Ed]
I suspect they'll take rubles....commie bastards.
Anyhoo, twenty-five freakin' dollars to watch a bunch of media-types tell you how wonderful they are when you can go to the Air and Space Museum and see rocket ships and fighter jets....for free!
The article makes reference to the Newseum's old building across the river in Rosslyn. We went to an event there in 1999. The facility was ok, we guess. Honestly we most remember the men's room, which had famous newspaper typos over each urinal. Who let the headline writers from the New York Post on the board?
Twenty-five dollars to look at tape of Walter Cronkite (who? askes everyone under 45.)
Oh media, don't ever change.
Riveting
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