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Brain -> The end of the Wash. Times and Rev. Moon's right-wing charity (1/5/2010 5:30:57 PM)
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I don’t know much about this newspaper but I’m glad to see that it will no longer be in business. I don’t like that guy Tony Blankley or whatever his name is. He’s always on Hardball or CNN.
Does anybody know what he means by the business model making a mockery of free enterprise? I suppose it’s some despicable charity tax deduction scam like C street.
The end of the Wash. Times and Rev. Moon's right-wing charity | Media Matters for America.
You'd think that somebody with a direct line to the Almighty, and tapped by Jesus to save mankind on Earth, would be able to come up with a better business plan for running a daily newspaper. But, alas, after nearly three decades of unrelenting financial losses, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, a federal tax cheat, accused cult leader, and founder of the Unification Church, has decided to pull out. Actually, according to news reports, it's more like Moon's U.S. college-educated sons, as part of an internal family power struggle, have decided to finally cut off the endless stream of Asian church cash that's kept The Washington Times afloat.
At this time of reflection, it's worth pondering two rather astonishing facets about the Times and its bizarre life and looming death. The first is the deep irony of how the Times, a clarion voice of partisan right-wing values, was run as a charity for nearly three decades and whose business model made a mockery of the free-marketplace system supposedly cherished by conservatives. The second is the even deeper irony of how the Times was owned by a delusional prophet whose apocalyptic visions made an even bigger mockery of the Christian values supposedly cherished by conservative activists.
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200912080004
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