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The Newseum, a museum devoted to journalists and journalism, opened in Arlington, Va., this month. —News item Parody News Thieves Plunder Heritage of Journalism By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN ARLINGTON,...
...They were professionals...
...News item Parody News Thieves Plunder Heritage of Journalism By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN ARLINGTON, Va., June 3 — The Newseum suffered a severe setback last night as a gang of highly trained journalism thieves broke through a skylight and stole several of the most valuable treasures in the museum's collection...
...The thieves entered the blockbuster exhibition "Masterworks of the Late Twentieth Century," evaded the security measures, and removed dozens of columns and news analyses from their ornate gilded frames...
...The entire Russell Baker collection is also missing, though curators doubt that anybody would have taken active measures actually to remove it...
...Dionne's transitional Blue Period, while leaving an entire wall from his more liberal Pinko Phase intact...
...Also, though Mr...
...In May, a group of Mongolian tribesmen raided the Newseum in search of positive columns about Newt Gingrich...
...They knew exactly what they were looking for," said Alain de Neuharth, chief curator of the New-seum...
...As a sign of their expertise, the thieves methodically selected several Kinsley columns on Republican hypocrisy...
...Last night's perpetrators are being called the "False Choices Gang" because of their preference for columns that move beyond the false choices of left and right...
...Among other works missing are three Broders recently discovered in the home of a swing voter in Macomb County, Mich...
...They lost Continued on Page D9...
...The ones they left behind had long been attributed to Kinsley until a computer search of the word pattern "Reaganite pandering" caused a Newseum archivist to reclassify them as "School of Kinsley...
...This is the third burglary at the Newseum in as many months...
...de Neuharth said that the museum's Gergen collection was "decimated," some extremely rare and valuable Loftons and Sobrans were left entirely untouched by the thieves...
...In April, thieves stole the entire Bob Herbert collection...
...The Herberts sell for phenomenal prices in Mexico, where they are ground up into a powder and used as an anesthetic for operations...
...They grabbed several works from E.J...
...It is now thought that these reclassified works are Weisbergs...
Vol. 2 • May 1997 • No. 33
