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Article: Happy Birthday, Associated Press
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 6, 1998
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THE NEWSEUM would like you to know that THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
IS 150 YEARS OLD! Why am I shouting? Because I'm half-deaf from
trying to view the exhibition while having my ears hammered by the
roaring cacophony of the Newseum's Video News Wall, whose giant
speakers drown out everything in the exhibition gallery.
The 126-foot video screen, which parallels the gallery,
simultaneously displays news feeds from wherever news is breaking or
talking heads are chattering, as many as six different broadcasts at
a time, and the noise and confusion defeat conversation, much less
concentration. The result is wall-to-wall incoherence.
Which as it turns out doesn't matter all that much because