Hi, maybe someone in the US can help me. I recently read the following about Reverend Sun Myung Moon :– "Essentially, in a ceremony organised by Moon's own newspaper, The Washington Times..."<p>Is the Washington Time really the newspaper of Reverend Sun Myung Moon of Unification Church fame?<p>J...

Update...<p>I though I should provide some context, so here it is. According to this he also owns United Press International.<p>
"The Reverend Sun Myung Moon was born in Korea on January 6th,
1920, and whether he was born dangerously insane or had dangerous
insanity thrust upon him ten years later when his parents found
Christ is impossible to tell. But one thing is for sure: by
the time he was fifteen and Jesus appeared to him on a Korean
mountainside, telling him to complete the construction of God's
Kingdom on earth and bring peace to the whole of humankind, he
was long gone.<p>He began preaching his version of Christianity in 1946 in North
Korea, where he was imprisoned by Communists, almost worked to
death and then, at the very last minute - on the day of his
execution no less - saved by invading Americans. Apparently.<p>In South Korea in 1954 he founded the Unification Church and set
about building his multi-billion dollar business empire. In the
Seventies he moved to New York and acquired a reputation for
evading tax, marrying en masse, and indoctrinating hordes of the
weak-willed and small-minded to raise funds for him. In 1984, he
went back to prison for income tax evasion. Since then, if you
weren't deliberately looking out for him, you might imagine he'd
simply gone away. Not so.<p>This week Father Moon is back in the news. What's odd is that the
reason he is back in the news - an event in the US Senate in
which he was crowned King of the Known Universe - actually took
place in March. But strangely, no-one seemed interested. Odd. It
is after all a very interesting story.<p>To say that Moon was crowned King of the Known Universe is
probably a bit of an exaggeration. Or else an understatement.
It's difficult to tell. Essentially, in a ceremony organised
by Moon's own newspaper, The Washington Times, and Moon's own
whatever-the-hell-it-is, the International Interreligious
Federation for World Peace, Moon himself stated that: 'Emperors,
kings and presidents have declared to all heaven and Earth that
Reverend Sun Myung Moon is none other than humanity's saviour,
messiah, returning Lord and true parent.' He also said: 'Hitler
and Stalin have found strength in my teachings, mended their ways
and been reborn as new persons.' He's a one, that Reverend Moon.<p>Present in Capitol Hill to applaud humanity's saviour, messiah,
returning Lord and true parent were more than a dozen Republican
and Democratic members of Congress, all of whom immediately after
the event began to distance themselves from it. Curt Weldon,
Congressman for Pennsylvania, denied having attended, then, when
he was shown photographs of himself at the event and reminded of
the speech he made about his recent trip to Libya, he remembered
- 'Oh, *that* Reverend Sun Myung Moon!' He then said, through his
spokesman, that he 'was not there for the crowning' and 'had no
idea that the Reverend Moon was going to be at this event... If
we had known that Reverend Moon was going to attend the event,'
his spokesman continued, 'the congressman likely would not have
attended.'<p>Meanwhile, when pressed, Sanford Bishop, Democratic
representative for Georgia and Congressional Co-Chair for the
event, said, 'My Messiah is Jesus Christ.' And so on.<p>So why on earth did they attend? Well, perhaps because the
Reverend Moon is one of the most powerful and influential men in
American politics. As well as the abovementioned
business concerns, this stark raving maniac also owns the hugely
prominent United Press International and has had very close and
mutually rewarding relationships with some of the most important (and despicable) men of the last century, including Richard Nixon, Charlton Heston, Oliver North, Jerry Falwell and, of course, George Bush Senior. So perhaps the surprise should not be that so many Senators and influential men in suits were there, but so few."

That is correct. He owns both. When the UPI purchase was announced, renowned reporter Helen Thomas quit immediately rather than accept any paycheck from Moon.<p>More here<p>[ June 25, 2004: Message edited by: SusanV ]</p>

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The word upstart in that first sentence is awful. I don't care what Merriam-Webster says.<p>[ June 27, 2004: Message edited by: Paul Wiggins ]</p>

And other than Helen Thomas, hasn't it been ages since anything about UPI was "hugely prominent"?

And I've talked to a lot of people overseas who are fooled by the stately name "The Washington Times" into thinking that it is a major newspaper.

Upstart? They've been around since 1982.

I would have bought UPI myself, but the owners didn't have change for a $50 bill.

<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by SeaRaven:
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Ready to join an upstart team? The Washington Times seeks exacting copy
editors who are masters of AP style to polish stories and craft standout
headlines in the hardest-charging newsroom in the nation's capital.
<hr></blockquote><p>And oh, how it needs it. The other day I pointed out the relationship between copy editing and newspaper credibility, using the Times as an example. They had the gall to put quotes around the word "marriage" when referring to gay marriage in Massachusetts. That's bad enough, but even worse: they were single quotes!!<p>Jen
giggling merrily all the way back to her actual work

They are blatantly biased, even stooping so low as to use goofy pictures of John Kerry or Bill and Hill. I wish Aaron Brown would crumple up their faxed-in front page some night.

Aaron who?