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Newseum opens

You know, I'm glad there's a new $450M building celebrating the collection and dissemination of news. The Newseum will serve a noble purpose, I'm sure: cheering on the First Amendment's stipulation of freedom of the press.

I just hope that somewhere in its exhibits is a room dedicated to press failures, such as its unwillingness (until recently) to point out government's criminal misbehavior over the past seven years.

It shouldn't have taken a hurricane the size of Katrina in 2005 for the press to wake up to the fact that the Bush Administration was inept, incompetent, and often corrupt.

Nonetheless, it's a beautiful place.