Newseum puts Robert Murdoch's cell phone on exhibit

Can someone's personal cell phone be historically important enough to put on exhibit in a major museum?

Well no, but cut Newseum a break; the museum of journalistic history just opened last Saturday and they probably don't have enough inventory to display yet.

The Robert Murdoch cell phone is one he last used in 2005, and from behind the protective glass you can check through his alphabetized speed dial; featuring newspaper executives, TV Network big-wigs, and family members.

Here's Newseum's own assessment of the artifact:

"It’s an enormous telephone that Murdoch used to make about
$20 billion worth of deals and acquisitions, including buying DirecTV and MySpace.”

All of which might be true, but it would be ten times more informative to see a transcript of those deals developing; seeing a phone book list of everyone who worked for him isn't telling us anything we didn't aleady know.
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