The fact that this is a major media story says a lot:
The Washington Times has announced major changes at the paper this morning, with three top executives gone in the process.
[….]There’s also been speculation that changes at the Times could be associated with last month’s handover of power in the Unification Church, the paper’s owner. The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who turns 90 in January, handed over power to his three sons.
Yes, the Moonie Times has lower circulation numbers than the Syracuse Post-Standard, but you wouldn’t know that to see how often its “reporters” turn up on the liberal cable news networks.
dmsilev
If there’s any justice in the world, John Solomon will be out of a job, won’t find anyone willing to hire him, and will have to beg for food on the streets.
Wingnut welfare will probably save him, sad to say.
-dms
kommrade reproductive vigor
Does this mean three times as many mass weddings?
(Yeah, yeah, your post title rawks.)
soonergrunt
@dmsilev: And Tony Blankley will be right behind him.
Oh, and YAY BRONCOS, 3-0 in the first quarter!
Zifnab
It’s like a horrifically twisted version of “The Good Earth”. I can only hope the paper fairs as well as the family farm.
Left Coast Tom
@dmsilev: Re: John Solomon:
I don’t know…it’s taken quite a hit by accepting Caribou Barbie’s clothing budget.
sturunner
It’s advertising lunch is being serious threatened by the freebie Washington Examiner , an editorial righty that is less wingnutty & actually has some very good local coverage.
Mike in NC
How to you say ‘Moe, Larry, & Curly’ in Korean?
Laura W
Well this is a damn disappointment.
I saw the title and thought you’d brought a We Are All Astrologers Now blogger on board.
You and your misleading, always-teasing titles, DougJ.
Too bad they are followed up by posts.
(h/t Fuckhead)
Zifnab
@Mike in NC: :-p I was expecting you to go Mike, Robbie, and Chip.
flounder
With John Solomon’s time being freed up, I see a new development in the America’s Next Pundit Contest.
General Winfield Stuck
It’s the silent fairness doctrine.
Mojotron
Yes, the Moonie Times has lower circulation numbers than the Syracuse Post-Standard
copypasting this from the DCist comments on this story:
Fun factoids: the Washington Times’s circulation is about half that of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, about two-thirds that of La Opinion de Los Angeles, about three-quarters that of the Times of Northwest Indiana, and slightly smaller than that of the South Bend Tribune.
Laura W
@Zifnab: You exclude Ernie because he was adopted, then?
I do not think that made him less of a son, do you, Zifnab?
MikeJ
At this point it’s just Reflex. Fl Fl Fl Flex.
And every little thing the reflex does
Leaves you answered with a question mark
Zifnab
@Laura W: The show is “My Three Sons”. If they wanted to count him as a fourth son, they should have put him in the title.
New Yorker
Yes, but does it have lower circulation numbers than the Utica Observer-Dispatch? Or the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin? Or the Watertown Daily Times? Or the Elmira Star-Gazette?
Huh? Huh?
reid
In defense of the Washington Times, Amanda Carpenter isn’t bad looking.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
So the Washington Times has tripled its Moonie goodness? So when a fool buys a copy of it they are Mooned three times as much now?
I think the WT is a publication that is suitable for door to door delivery similar to the way the Jehovah’s Witnesses do. Having them handed out at the airport by people wearing orange robes also would be suitable.
Handing it out for free at pet shops would also work as animals really don’t care what they shit on.
Brian J
I don’t remember exactly on what blog I saw them–it might have been TPM–but the comments in response to this news were hysterical and spot on.
Anyway, I’ve always found it pretty revealing that outlets such as the Moonie Times act the way they act. Rather than go for something refined, intelligent, and worldly, they seem to purposefully wallow in their own filth. Not every publication has to be The New Yorker, The New York Times, or The Wall Street Journal, but when you are given what amounts to an extended journalistic free pass, why would you waste it? If the Moonie Times wanted to be a real newspaper instead of whatever it is now, it almost certainly could. It has the resources of its owner to essentially wait out the other papers as they fail and do what they can’t, whether or not the economy is up. (The same thing applies to The Washington Post, to a lesser extent, since it has Kaplan test prep propping it up.) But instead of trying to actually inform its readers, even with a conservative bent in mind, it chooses to preach to them. It is propaganda, when it doesn’t happen to be.
Or does it? Is the only way for these guys to buy influence to try and distort reality?
Brian J
@reid:
No, she’s not. Neither is Michelle Bachmann. (In fact, I think our crazy Aunt Michelle could be at the top of the list for best looking federal elected officials. I don’t know what it is, aside from my love for older, cougarish-type woman, but she’s stunning to me.) But the second those crazy bitches open their mouths and start spouting their insane drivel, the attraction is gone.
reid
@Brian J: I didn’t say it was a strong defense…. Danging with faint praise even, maybe, also.
Yes, Michelle Bachmann is not bad looking, in her defense.
BruceFromOhio
Its only news if you pay attention to it.
When are you all going to understand? They are powerless if we a) don’t pay for their content, and b) ignore what they say, and c) ignore what is said about them.
A guy crying “FIRE!” in an empty theatre only serves himself.
BruceFromOhio
@reid:
Are the hot ones crazy, or the crazy ones hot? I can never keep up.
reid
I think my first exposure to the Washington Times was through Tony Blankley, so you can imagine what a good first impression that was. I think Monica Crowley, his replacement on McLaughlin, is actually worse, though in her defense….
Wile E. Quixote
@Zifnab
That’s what I was thinking. And another great headline from DougJ, although I have to say that I liked “It’s Only a Paper, Moon” better. I mean that was fucking masterful.
Brian J
@reid:
Whenever I see him, I now think of Jeff Green from “Curb.” Oh, if only the Moonie Times had a Susie walking around, cursing everyone out. The world would be a more just place.
Wile E. Quixote
@BruceFromOhio
Just remember, now matter how hard you might try you can’t fuck a crazy girl sane.
reid
@BruceFromOhio: Which came first, the crazy or the hot? Ah, the imponderables.
Corner Stone
@reid: ‘Why are the pretty ones always insane?’ — Clancy Wiggum
reid
@Brian J: Good call, quite a resemblance! Another 50 pounds of crusty snob and you’d almost have Tony.
The McLaughlin Group would do well with a Susie, too. I would pay a lot to see her curse out John and Pat for half an hour.
ruemara
@MikeJ:
About time this place had a duran thread.
Comrade Luke
@reid:
I thought she was attractive too – until she opened her mouth. Then she turned into the vision at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Luckily, I changed the channel before my face melted.
Laura W
@Zifnab: Are you saying they should have aborted him, Zifnab?
Davis X. Machina
Tony Blankley can always get work in a road company of Guys and Dolls — he won’t starve.
skippy
what??? no “moon’s three sons” headline?? or are you too young for the reference?
i expected more from you, doug.
skippy
@Zifnab: whoops! i see now that zifnab beat me to the punch (line)!
New Yorker
Comrade Luke wins the thread.
Darkrose
@MikeJ:
Mike, what exactly are you trying to say here? Is there something I should know?