Eat The Press

Washington Times Takedown: "The vast majority of people who read it don't realize that this paper is in bed with bigots and white supremacists."

Posted Thursday September 21, 2006 at 06:41 PM

Blistering expose of the Washington Times in The Nation today, courtesy of Max Blumenthal. "These are edgy times at the Washington Times," he opens, explaining that not only is their tension in the newsroom because the newsroom is rife with racism, sexism and far-right white-supremacist overtones, but because they're all coming from editor in chief Wes Pruden's handpicked successor, managing editor Fran Coombs — and upstairs boss Preston Moon isn't having any of it. Moon is the youngest son of Korean Unification Church leader and Times financier Sun Myung Moon and, according to Blumenthal's sources, he wants the current regime and its poisonous politics out.

Blumenthal uncovers how the Washington Times functions as "a key part of the radical right's apparatus in the United States." Read all about it here; sounds like a fun and accepting place to work!