News Knickknacks
| Artifact photos courtesy of Newseum |
Sure, journalists love to write great stories, but they also love to read great stories about themselves. And when the Newseum opens in October, they’ll be able to do just that, as the $435 million undertaking will feature all things Fourth Estate.
Yeas & Nays has gotten a sneak peek at some of the nearly 600 items that will be on display at the museum.
They include:
- The red sweater Helen Thomas wore during a 2006 presidential press conference when President George W. Bush, after a long hiatus, finally called on the UPI columnist.
- The Treo hand-held device used by Jim Romenesko, an editor at the popular media news Web site www.poynter.org
- The notebook used by Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff when he first learned of Monica Lewinsky and that there
was a sexual element to her relationship with President Bill Clinton.
- The original script from the first “60 Minutes.”
- The first wire report detailing the 1963 shooting in Dallas, that would result in President John F. Kennedy’s death.
- A letter opener from famed columnist Ann Landers.
- A pen and paintbrush from legendary Washington Post cartoonist Herblock.
- The script from “The Colbert Report” episode in which the word “truthiness” first appeared.
- A laptop used by former Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was murdered in Pakistan in 2002.
- The vest worn by ABC’s Bob Woodruff when he was injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2006.
- Slippers worn by Ana Marie Cox when she edited the Web site Wonkette.com.
