{"id":638,"date":"2023-02-16T23:30:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T00:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=638"},"modified":"2023-02-24T15:12:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T15:12:18","slug":"fox-6-edited-out-all-questions-about-milwaukee-public-museums-finances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"Fox 6 Edited Out All Questions About Milwaukee Public Museum\u2019s Finances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/fox-6-edited-all-out-alexandra-hahnfelds-questions-about-milwaukee-public-museums-finances\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/fox-6-edited-all-out-alexandra-hahnfelds-questions-about-milwaukee-public-museums-finances\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1068\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Collage-Maker-16-Feb-2023-06.25-PM.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Alexandra Hahnfeld\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Global Disinformation Index\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>TOP FACTS<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Alexandra Hahnfeld\u2019s grandfather was a curator of the Milwaukee Public Museum\u2019s European Village exhibit, and she is trying to save it, launching a petition drive with her sisters.<\/li>\n<li>In an interview with Fox 6 this week, Hahnfeld raised concerns about the museum\u2019s finances, diversity updates, and shifting numbers, but the television station refused to give viewers the information.<\/li>\n<li>Wisconsin Right Now, with a grant from Kevin Nicholson\u2019s No Better Friend Corp. organization, has been reporting for the past month on the concerns. See our reporting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/milwaukee-public-museum\/\">here.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Hahnfeld says, \u201cI don\u2019t feel like they shared the whole story.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fox 6 edited out all questions about the Milwaukee Public Museum\u2019s finances, multi-million dollar planned diversity updates and shifting numbers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox6now.com\/news\/milwaukee-public-museum-european-village-creators-family-hopes-save\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">in a story<\/a> on the new $240 million museum project, leaving them on the cutting room floor, and refusing to let the public know the concerns exist, Wisconsin Right Now has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The museum\u2019s earned media director, Madeline Anderson, is a former reporter for Fox 6, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/madeline-anderson-42ab67a1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to her LinkedIn page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t feel like they shared the whole story,\u201d Alexandra Hahnfeld, who was interviewed for a story on the new museum by Fox 6, told Wisconsin Right Now in a video interview.<\/p>\n<p>After the Fox 6 interview aired, Hahnfeld texted us, \u201cWow! I did an interview for Fox 6 and mainly talked about the lack of transparency and how their money spending is questionable\u2026 and they didn\u2019t include ANY of that. The whole interview I talked about how MPM has been LYING, and they never once mentioned that? Or the fact they (museum officials) said it would cost X amount of money and then said never mind it\u2019s this much money?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox6now.com\/news\/milwaukee-public-museum-european-village-creators-family-hopes-save\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Fox 6 story<\/a> was reported by Madalyn O\u2019Neill. It ended up being a human interest feature about Hahnfeld\u2019s grandfather, a Serbian immigrant.<\/p>\n<p>We first spoke to Alexandra Hahnfeld and her sisters Demitra Hahnfeld and Natalia Kulas last month for a story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/streets-of-old-milwaukee-petition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about their petition<\/a> to save the museum\u2019s European Village, which is located next to the Streets of Old Milwaukee (it\u2019s the part where you peek in houses from different cultures.) Their grandfather, Dr. Lazar Brkich, was a curator for the exhibit; he was a Serbian immigrant to Milwaukee who painstakingly researched and selected many of the artifacts in it.<\/p>\n<p>The petition was widely reported by the other media as well, so when Fox 6 contacted Alexandra Hahnfeld this week and asked for an interview, she thought they wanted to know about the latest: The questions that have been raised over the museum\u2019s finances, including its shifting numbers for \u201cdeferred maintenance,\u201d and $80-90 million estimate for racial and equity updates museum officials won\u2019t explain.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin Right Now, with the grant from Kevin Nicholson\u2019s No Better Friend non-profit, has been leading the way in investigating those questions, while the rest of the media have acted as virtual stenographers for the museum, despite the $85 million in taxpayer money allotted to it. You can read all of our reporting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/milwaukee-public-museum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>; it is ongoing with more to come soon.<\/p>\n<p>But all of Hahnfeld\u2019s comments on those topics didn\u2019t make the broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI talked about the money disparities and the lack of transparency from the museum and all that stuff,\u201d Hahnfeld told WRN. \u201cI thought that was the main point of the interview \u2026 afterwards, I watched it (the TV story) once\u2026 I watched it a couple more times. Then I went to the (Fox 6) Facebook page; there were so many comments underneath asking, \u2018You know what about the money stuff?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the clip of her talking about her grandfather, the story included a soundbite from the museum officials about how anything being said regarding exhibits is speculation. That made Hahnfeld feel like the station insinuated falsely that she was basing her comments on speculation when she is not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like why did you guys even ask me to do an interview? I don\u2019t feel like they addressed or brought up any of the concerns and the controversial parts of the interview,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said she believed Fox 6 was taking the museum\u2019s side. \u201cFirst, they said it would cost this much, then they said it would cost that much,\u201d she said of museum officials, but Fox 6 did not tell viewers any of this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really wanted to spread the message,\u201d Hahnfeld said. She said she had already shared the story of her grandfather multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>She wanted a chance to say \u201cthis is a big thing that people are talking about \u2026 and a lot of people are mad about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey definitely didn\u2019t share information that I wanted them to share,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Hahnfeld said she sent the reporter links to Wisconsin Right Now\u2019s articles to show that the facts are backed up with documentary evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve all been asking for answers this whole entire time. They\u2019ve been kind of weird about the wording of things,\u201d she said of the museum.<\/p>\n<p>Fox 6 used a soundbite in the story showing the museum\u2019s earned museum director, Anderson, the former Fox 6 reporter, saying in January of the Streets of Old Milwaukee and European Village: \u201cThese exhibits, these buildings and other murals, those are painted on or built into this structure. Even if we wanted to, we couldn\u2019t just bring them over to the new building.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/fox-6-edited-all-out-alexandra-hahnfelds-questions-about-milwaukee-public-museums-finances\/ TOP FACTS Alexandra Hahnfeld\u2019s grandfather was a curator of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}