Visit Newseum In Washington DC

March 11, 2009

1804093For you who take your vacation in Washington DC, let’s try go to Newseum.For those who want to know more devious about professional journalist, following their roles in society, and happens to be in Washington DC, the capital of the United States, it’s good the Newseum, the museum of world press in the United States.

It was far from the slums.it was magnificent and luxurious, located on a seven-storey building in blue glass wall, which is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue, which connects the Parliament Building Capitol Hill and presidential palace with the White House Sixth Street, NW, Washington, DC, and adjacent to the Smithsonian Museums on the National Mall.If see the location, not unexpectedly if Newseum which managed by private foundation, located in the center of politics and history of the United States, to show the role of mass media as the fourth pillar of democracy in the U.S., after the executive, legislative, and judiciary.

Here are there integrate the various attractions of the high-technology multimedia history, including the historical development of the press to start the 5 century before the printing machine, to use instruments of communication sophisticated lately. In the background there is a face of marble inscription that reads the words in the First amendment, freedom of the press is a cornerstone in the U.S.. Wall-see-through glass wall is intentionally made so that the people can see the role of  media provide a forum for media and public to understand each other.

In the seven storey building there are many galleries and theaters, which ranges all the themes on how and why the news was made by the journalist.
The visitor will get a better understanding about the news and the important role in journalism.

Thus, a new visitor arrived, first impressions will present interesting form of four-dimensional film (4-D) in Leonere and Walter Annenberg Theater, which perform the interesting history of the press in U.S.
In addition, the homepage also presented various major daily newspaper is published in U.S. and some newspaper in the world, for example, from the Philippines Manila Chronicle. Every day those newspapers send electronic edition of the newspaper and they printed.

there is theater that show documenting film about the struggle of black people in the U.S. to gain equality in the political, social and economic development, and it achieved in 1965 because of the support of press. It’s part to show the matters related to the role of the journalist (or victims) in the terror attacks of 11 September 2001 on WTC twin towers in New York.

Also displayed datsun cars under the drivers seat due to air six stem dynamite explosion because the reporters investigate cases of corruption. Car or GMC white pickup truck owned by journalists who the body full bullet hole because is shoot by Serbian soldiers in Kosovo, but the glass is bulletproof.

Photo results catapult of journalist who covered in the execution of the death penalty in the electric chair using a camera hidden in the trousers, follows a unique camera. Also displayed a helicopter is used when creating a TV journalist coverage. Thus, the working journalist is not without risk.

Visit the Newseum provide valuable experience for everyone, including journalists once was. If you want satisfied required more than three hours to enjoy all the vehicle in this building. End, the visitors understood that the news is a rough history or historical news is that half-finished.

Because the show is not only objects associated with the journalism world, began the most ancient to the most powerful, but especially how and why journalists work record history while determining follow through history the way they reveal the truth through the news.

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