Museum-Quality Journalism? The Observer’s Editor Weighs in on ‘The Last Newspaper’

Museum-Quality Journalism? The Observer’s Editor Weighs in on ‘The Last Newspaper’ | The New York Observer – As provocative as the title is—and as defensive as it made me and my journalist wife feel as we stepped inside—"The Last Newspaper" isn't about that. In fact, the problem with the exhibit is in determining precisely what it is trying to say. While we both left relieved that the curators hadn't found enough material to nail down their premise, the exhibit suffers from a randomness that reminded me of a bad small-town daily, a mixing of spaghetti dinners and Eagle Scout announcements I do my best to avoid.

Museum-Quality Journalism? The Observer’s Editor Weighs in on ‘The Last Newspaper’ | The New York Observer