Following rumors that reverend Sun Myung Moon would be buying back The Washington Times from his son Preston Moon, the terms of the deal have been released.
Douglas Joo, a trusted friend of Mr. Moon and a former chairman of the paper who was dismissed by Mr. Moon’s son, is handling the Read More
Keeping a daily newspaper afloat is hard. Keeping a daily newspaper owned by a division of Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church afloat is even harder.
The Washington Times‘ weekday circulation has fallen below 50,000, and the news staff has withered to just 70, down from 225 in 2002. The budget is so thin that there Read More
This morning, Matt Drudge reported that Barack Obama’s campaign had barred critical reporters from the senator’s plane. According to Mr. Drudge, reporters from the New York Post, The Washington Times, and The Dallas Morning News (all papers whose editorial pages endorsed Senator Obama’s rivals, John McCain and Sarah Palin) were told that: Read More
The Washington Times takes a look at the Hillary campaign’s strategy for dealing with the media, and ends up reinforcing the conventional wisdom that the Democratic frontrunner seeks to tightly control her message and keep the press at arm’s length. We know — shocker.
Surprisingly, the story doesn’t mention the episode Read More
The Washington Times, which mounts even less of an effort to mask its partisan leanings than the Fox News Channel, is an occasional source of amusement with its breathless adherence to the GOP message machine. Like this morning’s if-we-keep-repeating-it-maybe-we-can-make-it-so headline and story:
Kerry gaffe loses independents for his party
Here’s the problem with Read More
The Washington Times, which mounts even less of an effort to mask its partisan leanings than the Fox News Channel, is an occasional source of amusement with its breathless adherence to the GOP message machine. Like this morning’s if-we-keep-repeating-it-maybe-we-can-make-it-so headline:
Kerry gaffe loses independents for his party
It makes us wonder how the Read More
How high is the Foley scandal reaching? The Washington Times , usually a safe haven for all things conservative, has a not-so-subtle editorial saying Dennis Hastert should resign as Speaker of the House.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert must do the only right thing, and resign his speakership at Read More
No less authority than the Washington Times reports today that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is “more conservative than President Bush” on immigration.
This analysis is encumbered by few actual details of where she stands, but it does have this quote, apparently from a 2003 WABC Radio interview with John Read More
Among the many problems facing the Democratic Party, according to former Vice President Al Gore, is the state of the American media.
“The media is kind of weird these days on politics, and there are some major institutional voices that are, truthfully speaking, part and parcel of the Republican Party,” said Mr. Gore in Read More
Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative , by David Brock. Crown, 336 pages, $25.95.
I’m afraid you really are going to have to read this book just to see what you think of it. “This is a terrible book,” David Brock begins. “It is about lies told and reputations ruined. It is Read More
