Washington Times, 3600 New York Ave. NE, Washington DC 20002,
Tel: 202-636-3000.
The Washington Times is DC's other newspaper. It is owned by Rev. Moon's
Unification Church and has operated at a loss since it started in 1982. If
it weren't for the fact that they use the wire services for much of their
coverage, their conservatism would be evident in almost every column-inch
that they print. Their main function, it would seem, is to make the
Washington Post more self-conscious and nervous about liberalism. It has
worked beautifully -- the op-ed page in the Post during the 1980s was
almost interchangeable with the Washington Times.
The Times was President Reagan's favorite paper, and Washington neocons
fawned over them. When the Times was feeling their oats in the 1980s they
became almost cocky, filling their pages with tributes to the wisdom and
adventures of various anti-Communists. With the Post afraid to sneeze
toward their Right, and the DC Left nowhere to be seen, the Times became
a valuable source for tracking interesting people. Strangely enough, they
were also more willing than the Post to print CIA names.
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