Posted on 05/01/2010 1:50:14 PM PDT by RatherBiased.com
Washington Times executives are negotiating to sell the newspaper, after the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's family cut off most of the annual subsidy of about $35 million that has kept the Unification Church-backed paper afloat, company officials said.
Nicholas Chiaia, a member of the paper's two-man board of directors and president of the church-supported United Press International wire service, confirmed that the paper is actively on the market: "We recently entered into discussions with a number of parties interested in either purchasing or partnering with the Washington Times," he said in a statement to The Washington Post.
Current and former Times officials said one suitor has been the paper's former executive editor, John Solomon, who resigned in November 2009. Soon thereafter, they said, Solomon organized a group of investors to purchase the Times or launch a new multimedia outlet called The Washington Guardian. Times company officials said they are also in discussions with other potential investors.
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Hope they stay afloat. Some superb reporting and editorials there.
What do we think it will fetch? Are there any conservative groups who could make it work? Breitbart? What is that conservative network that Kelsey Grammer is doing?
Rupert needs to add it to his empire.
Well, I’m afraid you could see this coming. There seem to be internecine problems in the Unification Church. I hope someone can be found to take it over. I don’t think it’s ever been profitable, but perhaps something can be worked out.
an aging Krishna hust;er and a younger Allah hustler.
I wonder how THIS will play out?
Popcorn anyone
Rush Limbaugh, this is your opportunity to get into the “traditional” media and spread the conservative gospel.
I think Murdock likes to make money. He’s not likely going to want to subsidize it to the extent of $35 mill per year.
But then I would guess he’s a better businessman than Moon as well. Might be able to turn it around.
The Washington Times has never been a major newspaper as just falls at the bottom of the top 100 US newspapers in the US.
I don’t think anyone will be willing to by it and eat that 35 million a year.
The Washington Times has never been a business.
Hey, maybe if we all pitch in a hundred bucks we could buy this thing (after we get the FReepathon finished off of course).
Depending on the buyer, The WaTimes could go from Moonie to looney!
I was thinking the same thing...get out your checkbook, Rush!
Yes, it would difficult to call the newspaper with the 97th best readership that bleeds 35 mil a year a “business.”.
Most of their top talent has departed in the last 6 months.
However, it was the best newspaper read in Washington, DC. Less than a year after I discovered it, I canceled my subscription to the ComPost. That was 22 years ago
The Washington Examiner has been eating its lunch.
The Washington Times is the most widely read paper in Washington and Virginia. It is the best conservative paper in the country. To lose it would be a disaster.
True, and a perfect opportunity for some wealthy conservative to purchase and make a difference.
Wont happen though.
Whatever you say about the stinking liberals, they put their money (and ours)
where their mouths are.
That's the only way the war will be won, so what does that tell you?
Not even close. The Richmond Times-Dispatch has a greater readership than the Washington Times.
I never understood why the Unification Church subsidized the Times. Leftists seemed to believe that the WT was nothing more than the house organ for the church, but it was not true. Over the years I noticed a few articles on the church, but this did not seem unusual, since the WT (unlike the Compost) frequently covered news about religion.
To me the WT always seemed just a straightforward, conservative, no-barf-alerts-required newspaper. When I had to be on the left coast for a few months, I subscribed by mail.
I hope they can survive.
The church is kind of weird - albeit nowhere near as weird as Scientology or Rajneeshism - but I understand that Reverend Moon is very conservative.
You mean Kelsey Grammer who is playing the main character in Le Cage aux Folles on Broadway & doesn’t have a problem with same sex marriages?....that ‘conservative’ Kelsey Grammer????
You mean Kelsey Grammer who is playing the main character in Le Cage aux Folles on Broadway & doesn’t have a problem with same sex marriages?....that ‘conservative’ Kelsey Grammer????
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100419/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1670
Be nice to see a Washington Times/New York Post merger.
And the UPI?
Weird?
In the Driksen building of the U.S. Senate in March 2004, Sun Myung Moon and his wife were clothed with kingly robes and crowned with golden crowns. Moon took the title King of Peace and made a long speech, in which he stated,
Emperors, kings and presidents... have declared to all Heaven and Earth that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is none other than humanity’s Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent.
The founders of five great religions and many other leaders in the spirit world, including even Communist leaders such as Marx and Lenin... and dictators such as Hitler and Stalin, have found strength in my teachings, mended their ways and been reborn as new persons.
In the context of heaven’s providence, I am God’s ambassador, sent to earth with His full authority. I am sent to accomplish His command to save the world’s 6 billion people, restoring them to heaven with the original goodness in which they were created.
During a tour of America in 1965, in which Moon established Holy Grounds at various locations, Moon and former South Korean Colonel and C.I A. officer Bo Hi Pak (later president of the Washington Times) met with occult spirit medium Arthur Ford (1879-1971) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ford claimed that his “spirit guide” named “Fletcher, would communicate through him. Ford stated, “I go to sleep because I was trained by a yoga, In this state of unconsciousness in which my objective mind is pushed aside there is a personality called Fletcher [which] comes through”. Fletcher confirmed Moon to be a spiritual leader through whom the Spirit of Truth could speak “more clearly than any one individual” at that time.[44] Moon then advised Ford to “find out what level Fletcher is at, so you can understand best how to work with him.”[45]
Moon’s use of spiritism would continue, being one that “continually receives ‘new revelations,’ and practices a form of soul travel whereby he allegedly projects himself into the spirit realm to see Jesus and the saints, and claims to be an ‘expert’ on the spirit world.”[46][47]
Unification sources also state that Moon has offered spiritual guidance and blessing to various notable historical figures, and has enabled seminars to take place in the spirit world, attended by a variety of leaders, from Confucius to Mao Zedung.[48] For 20 years Moon has sought to develop a Spirit World Machine, hoping to establish a reliable connection to the spirit world. [49]
Primarily in earlier days, Unificationists themselves placed a heavy emphasis upon visions, revelatory dream and hearing voices. A study of members in the New York City area between 1979 and 1980 showed 32 percent describing having personally meaningful visions of Sun Myung Moon in different postures.[50]
http://www.conservapedia.com/Unificationism
Paging Rush Limbaugh.
Mr. Rush Limbaugh.
Please pick up the house phone...
but how many hole-in-one's can he make in one game??? North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il is the best golfer in the world, hands down. On his first ever trip to the golf course, he shot 38-under par, including 5 hole-in-ones! This is reported by the government controlled media. He routinely shoots 3 or 4 hole-in-ones every time out.
And the penalty for doubting this. I pray for them. Good night.
About time. The Moonies have pretty much run the paper into the ground. No more sports, little to no local news, so many other things cut back. With a enw owner, maybe it can be revived. Maybe Murdoch?
I hope someone else buys the Times and Solomon goes ahead with teh Guardian. That would braoden the DC media options, whihc is a good thing.
True. The editor they got from the Washington Compost changed the orientation rather a lot. Before that, Wes Pruden was great, and I miss him.
Conservatism cannot rely on newspapers or even well honed treatises on philosophy. It is not the intellect that political movements must appeal to but rather emotion. It is sad but true. We must make people emotionally attached to the idea of individual liberty and freedom, the rest will take care of itself. The left has a monopoly on media outlets and still they cannot get a majority ideologically in polls. However, many people who vote for the left are intellectually conservative, it’s that disconnect that we must set right..
Not so. It is the Left which appeals to pathos, and typically resists an even playing field in which ideological ethos is examined. The “intellectual left” means using ones mind to rationalize away immorality, and to manipulate the mas by specious argumentation (victim mentality, etc.) to travel on a broad path of destruction. Classic example, http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/Homosex_versus_the_Bible.html
I think it got many of the former Wash Times staff, but I haven’t been counting.
... paging Rupert Murdoch ....
Whatever.
The Washington Times has been a God-send for the past 30 years.
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