The right is cracking!: Moonie Times in Turmoil

[BurtWorm]

This story is several days stale, but--wow! Something big really is going on. The Moonies are sick of losing billions to a paper that does nothing but stroke the American Republican elite. Who can blame them, when you put it like that?


http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A50909-2004Jun17?language=printer



Tension of the Times


By David Ignatius

Friday, June 18, 2004; Page A29


It's a sign of the times when even the people who bankroll Washington's leading conservative newspaper are said to be uneasy with Bush administration foreign policy. But in that heretical spirit, a revolt is reportedly brewing at the Unification Church, which owns the Washington Times and is pushing for changes at the paper.

Insiders say the church's new line is that with the end of the Cold War, it's important to support international organizations such as the United Nations and to campaign for world peace and interfaith understanding. That stance would be awkward for the Times's hard-line editor in chief, Wesley Pruden, and its stable of neoconservative columnists.

The only public sign of ferment was an announcement in April by News World Communications, a Unification Church subsidiary that owns the Times, that it would no longer print three related publications. A spokesman explained that News World was seeking to save money and "reposition" its assets by terminating the biweekly Insight magazine, the monthly World & I magazine and a Spanish-language newspaper in New York, Noticias del Mundo.

The real battles have been taking place out of public view, and rumors about a high-level power struggle have been swirling around the Times offices. Sources say that the dominant church official overseeing the publications is now the Rev. Chung Hwan Kwak, a close adviser to the church's founder, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

[joefree1]

1. Ah gee, too bad

Not.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. As interesting as the column is...

How much weight do you give an opinion piece from the crosstown rival?

:shrug:

Let's hope it's true.

[BurtWorm]

3. Good point.

But the courting of African-American Democrats makes a tad more sense now. Which isn't to say they should allow themselves to be courted. Who knows where that money has been?

[FlemingsGhost]

6. It sure does.

Democrats are as shameless as Republicans.

[Cheswick2.0]

10. "Democrats are as shameless as Republicans."

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

And Naderites are more predictable than the sunrising every day.

[FlemingsGhost]

4. First thing: Fire Tony Blankley

Let that fat bastard know what its like to be unemployed in Bush's Amerika.

[ConsAreLiars]

5. Somebody with thick skin should introduce this info at Reich-wing boards

"The Unification Church has bankrolled huge losses at the Times, which several sources estimated have totaled more than $1 billion over the past 22 years. The paper's losses are running about $20 million annually, one source said; another source offered a slightly higher estimate."

I've wondered about how much the FundiCons were paying to support this propaganda machine - a Billion Dollars !!!

[maggrwaggr]

7. World Peace??!! What a horrible, outrageous and LIBERAL idea!

the very thought of world peace is traitorous and anyone suggesting World Peace is a good idea is probably a terrorist!

[BurtWorm]

8. kick

[Corgigal]

9. Maybe

some of the people working at the Times don't make enough money to buy their kid out of upcoming draft and are finally thinking their point of view can really affect their home.

[gasperc]

11. ha,ha,ha that was my hope in a post a couple of days ago

even though this stupid event, 3 MONTHS OLD, was slowing gaining traction and was being feverishly disowned by the GOP by trying to smear the DEMs, hopefully it would finally destroy the Times.

keeping my fingers crossed