09-10-2002, 08:32 PM
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Originally posted by szcax:
<strong>Hey - I never read the Washington Times (only N.Y. Times, USA Today, and a local paper are available gratis to students at my school). I'm just curious to know whether the Washington Times is a particularly right-wing paper. Anyone read it enough to know?</strong>
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It's worse. Here's an excerpt from David Brock's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812930991/qid=1031717463/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-1605198-8794367?v=glance&s=books" target="_blank"> Blinded by the Right</a>
There are numerous other mentions of Moon's unsavory tactics and habits in that book, as well as plenty of dirt on the religious right. I highly recomend it.
theyeti
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In theory, the Times was supposed to be no more conservative than other newspapers were liberal: It's political point of view would be confined to the editorial pages, while the news columns would be fiar, balanced, and objective. In practice, the Times was closer to a European-style newspaper, where one political stance or another openly infuses the enitre publication, than it was to the conventions of American journalism. Though the conservative movement operated outside the Republican Party while seeking influence within it, in the Reagan era, the movement's agenda -- and therefore that of the Times -- was pretty much Reagan's: militant anti-Communism, tax cuts to benefit corporations and the rich, dismantlement of affirmative action and social welfare programs, deregulation, and union-busting.
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Moon unabashedly mixed politics with journalism. While publishing the Times, he also directed the American Freedom Coalition, a pro-Reagan, grassroots political lobby. When Congress cut off aid to the Nicaraguan counterrevolutionaries, or contras, [editor in chief] Arnaud wrote an editorial announcing a Times fund-raising drive for a Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, endowed with a $100,000 check from [Times president] Bo Hi Pak. To the horror of many in the newsroom, Arnuad insisted on splashing the editorial across the front page. Arnaud's action came two months after Reagan aide Oliver North had drafted a secret memo calling for the establishment of such a fund. Four editors quit the paper, accusing Arnaud of ordering changes in an editorial on South Korea after he discussed the subject with one of the owners, violating guarantees of editorial independence for the news department. Wire sevice copy was doctored in stories dealing with the Rev's felony conviction for tax evasion. And there were endless controversies and resignations over what became known as "Prudenizing" news copy -- slanting it in a conservative direction.
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Amd if that's not enough to scare you, here are some of the preceeding passages about Moon:
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Then there was Moon himslef -- the Rev, we called him -- the head of the South Korea-based Unification Church, who claimed to be the second coming of Christ, the true Messiah, dedicated to uniting the world -- both Eastern and Western civilizations -- under a single theocratic leader, himself. Moon was seen as an ally of American conservatives in that he say the defeat of godless Communism, especially in North Korea, as a necessary step in achieving this dream of marrying politics to religion. Moon, who sought to control several worldwide media outlets as a vechicle for advancing his cause, surfaced occasionally, usually on weekends when the newsroom was quiet. He delivered violent, table-pounding anti-Communinsts exhortations to top management and the several dozen church members placed in strategic positions at the Times.
The alliance between the conservative Christians and the neoconservative Jews who helped run his publishing empire in Washington was hard to fathom except in coldly utilitarian terms on all sides. Moon founded his church in 1954 in Korea -- which he believes is God's chosen nation. He teaches that Christian churches further Satan's power and has said that God punished Israel and the Jews in the Holocaust for rejecting Jesus.
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