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Murdoch Opens Corporate News Theme Park

Posted by Davin Hutchins, American News Project at 10:32 AM on June 24, 2008.

"Newseum" epitomizes everything bad about the commercialization of news.

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ANP takes a humorous look at the grand achievement of the Newseum - a multi-million dollar shrine to the news industry brought to you by today's corporate media titans.

Despite all the money, the curators might have failed on one key question: What is news?

Tagged as: rupert murdoch, media, journalism, free press, fox news, first amendment

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