Media

Temple or Memorial?

THE NEWSEUM OPENS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

Celia Wren

These days the news business appears to be teetering precariously between extinction and a banal ubiquity. On the one hand, each day seems to usher in more crises for newspapers, the traditional bastion of serious, for-the-record daily enlightenment. Beset by plummeting advertising and sinking circulation, the medium is declining before our eyes. Recently, the Tribune Corporati (...)


 

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