But to be intellectually consistent, I must post this bad news.
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True, but also note the source—TPM is notoriously liberal. I’m not saying the article is factually inaccurate, but Talking Points Memo is definitely going to gloat over the Washington Times’ difficulties and ignore or play down similar, far worse situations at liberal-slanted papers.
You’re right, though. Dead-tree newspapers are slowly dying no matter what, but the liberal bias and arrogance of so many will cause them to die faster.
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Leadership changes at The Times: Daily operations being assessed
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/10/leadership-shake-up-at-times/
Wow, this time it really IS the Joo's fault.
Written by a group to the left of acorn.
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I’m not so sure.
The Wall Street Journal just recently took the spot as the country’s #1 paper. Articles are sometimes left of center, but generally fair. But the editorial section is very conservative.
IBD circulation is increasing. Very conservative paper.
Don’t worry...if Moon decides to get out of the newspaper business, Mr. Murdoch wouldn’t mind having a paper in D.C., and News Corp has the deepest pockets in the media world. The other option would be for Philip Anschutz, the owner of the Washington Examiner, to buy the Times and fold it into his operation.
As a property of either News Corp or Mr. Anschutz’s Clarity Media, the Times would actually have better long-term prospects than the Post. The WaPo can’t survive forever on its Kaplan revenues.
This is sad, I like the WT.
To tell you the truth, It’s been YEARS since I’ve read anything much about Rev. Sun Myung Moon or his Unification Church. But obviously as he gets older and eventually dies, it will be a question whether his church can make the transition or not and remain financially viable.
I consider his church to be a crazy sect; but for the most part they seem to have given the Washington Times freedom to report the news without interference.
In other words, I would see this as the Washington Times losing audience like other newspapers. Rather, it’s the Washington Times in danger of losing Unification Church support as Rev. Moon’s family fight (I gather) over the future direction and leadership of this church.
I had always assumed that the Washington Times — which I used to read regularly when I lived near a place that sold it — was a money loser from the get-go — something that Rev. Moon was willing to bankroll for political reasons.
One of Mrs. Flash’s cousins is a committed HSAUWC member (Mooney). The guy the Rev. picked out for her to marry was a complete stiff. She divorced him a few years later, no kids thank G_d. She got us tickets to see the Rev. a few years ago. He was uninspiring.
The Washington Times has always been a low-circulation paper in a very liberal market. If it had merged with the IBD a decade ago, or something, to form “The National Times” it might have created a really cool paper that could have sold quite a few newspapers.