Imagine a photography musuem devoted to Speed-Graphics, Hasselblads and Leicas.

Or an art musuem with exhibits on camels-hair brushes, marble, and gesso.

That's why I can't get too worked up about the Newseum.

The medium isn't historical, the message is.

And their mission of "providing a forum where the media and the public can gain a better understanding of each other" leaves me cold. We're not the serfs wandering around the castle halls, trying to understand what it's like to be king: Now we are the ones in charge of the information we produce and consume.

Le media, c'est moi.

This entry was posted by Kevin Creighton, on 4.22.2008. You can leave your response.