The irony was palpable, as the lines for the Newseum formed around the block in its last few days.
The bespoke museum of journalism and the media, with a news helicopter suspended from its high ceiling, a chunk of the Berlin Wall, a grand view of the Capitol from its sunny high windows, and its wall full of front pages of American newspapers the morning after the Sept 11, 2001 attacks, shut its doors for the last time on Tuesday.
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