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...Newseum announces list of century's Top 100 news stories...
...Ullman was the moderator Tuesday at "Press Coverage of Stock Market Crashes," a seminar hosted by the Freedom Forum and held at the Newseum in New York. Featured speakers were leading lights from the New York Times and thestreet.com, counterbalanced by a mutual fund guru and a Yale economist. Everyone agreed on the easy part: Business news has never been better business. But there was fear in the air -- even the most bearish press coverage has had little effect on the individual investor's buy-now-and-hold-forever ethos that has fed the current seven-year bull market. Everybody...
THOSE #&%* EDITORS! They made 86 cuts and changes ("mutilations," said the author), but the work still became an American best seller. Last week Thomas Jefferson got to say the last word, every single one, when the full draft of his Declaration of Independence went on display at the Newseum in Arlington, Va., on loan from the New York Public Library. An angry Jefferson underlined Congress's changes. One of its telling deletions: a denunciation of King George for maintaining slavery...
...Newseum--an interactive museum dedicated to the history of journalism and (evidently) the propagation of stupid puns--just opened in Arlington, Va., across the Potomac from Washington. There was a lot of fanfare, as there always is when journalists gather to celebrate themselves. The Freedom Forum sank $50 million into the Newseum, and it shows. You can't turn around without bumping into some shiny chunk of high-tech hardware: touch-screen computers, Cinerama-style theaters and a video wall so large--126 ft. long, 10 1/2 ft. high--that it could theoretically accommodate 300 couch potatoes at the same...