Washington Times

Washington Times To Cease Sunday Publication

AP | Posted 12.21.2009 | Media


WASHINGTON — The Washington Times says it will publish its last Sunday edition this weekend. The newspaper made the announcement Monday, saying...

Jason Linkins

Washington Times Set To Enact Significant Layoffs

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.03.2009 | Media


Here's your update of what's going on at the increasingly chaotic Washington Times.

Jason Linkins

Washington Times Depends On $40M Subsidy From Unification Church, Says Ex-Editor

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.25.2009 | Media


The Washington Times is going through its own version of a 2012 disaster. Firings! Recriminations! All of this is happening as the family of owner Sun Myung Moon stages its own bizarre version of King Lear.

Washington Times Denies Moonie Bias Claim

AP | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media


WASHINGTON — The Washington Times is denying a religious discrimination claim by the paper's former opinion editor. Richard Miniter filed a com...

Obama Bows, Conservatives Bitch, Reality Bites

Jackson Williams | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics


Jackson Williams

President Obama bowed this week when greeting Japanese Emperor Akihito, and the conservative media and blogosphere went positively apoplectic.

Jason Linkins

Washington Times Turmoil Continues Amid Resignations, Uncertainty, And Panic

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media


So, here's what's going on at your Washington Times. Confusion! Panic! Resignations! Clampdowns! This week, The Politico is not the most terrifying ...

Media, Money and Sun Myung Moon

Rory O'Connor | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media


Rory O'Connor

More than a decade ago, the Washington Times was the fulcrum of Moon's mission to use money and media as a path to power.

Jason Linkins

Washington Times Beefs Up Security As Internal Turmoil Continues [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media


Things are getting downright weird over at the Washington Times. Armed guards are popping up all over the newsroom, as the paper prepares for the Rapture, or something.

Washington Times Shake-Ups Connected To New President's Book Review?

Politico | Michael Calderone | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books


Given today's big management changes and still-unanswered questions about whether executive editor John Solomon will stay at the paper, there are a lo...

Washington Times Shakeup: Top Executives Out, Editor In Limbo, Expected To Resign

Posted 11.09.2009 | Media


Three top executives are out at the conservative Washington Times, and the newspaper's editor remains in limbo. The company announced Monday that the...

WashTimes and Fox News Now Unleashing Mobs On Private Citizens (Including Kids)

Eric Boehlert | Posted 11.29.2009 | Media


Eric Boehlert

The conservative movement has become a mindless mob, and the right-wing media, more and more often, are sending their overeager foot soldiers out on seek-and-destroy missions involving private citizens.

Death Panels By Proxy: Washington Times Spreads New Health Care Lie

Time | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics


There they go again. Now that the "death panel" lie has snookered nearly half the country, the Washington Times is going for the other half in an edit...

Cantor: GOP Will Be 'Attentive' During Obama Speech

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics


Christina Bellantoni

Cantor and I talked about how Republicans would behave, and I asked if it would be like a State of the Union when they sit on their hands or hiss for parts they don't agree with.

In Health Care Push, Biden Asks Americans: 'Bust This Myth'

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics


Christina Bellantoni

Biden made a renewed health care push, asking supporters to join the White House to debunk rumors and imploring Americans to send in their personal stories to showcase the need for reform.

WATCH: Kennedy Passes Torch to Obama

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics


Christina Bellantoni

In pulling together notes for my Ted Kennedy story, I found these two videos I captured at the Kennedy endorsement speech on Jan. 28, 2008.

The New Orleans Mental Health Crisis, Exposed

Harry Shearer | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics


Harry Shearer

The Washington Times ran an admirable piece about the post-Katrina mental health mess, yet there is a remarkable lapse: a failure to explain why the disaster happened, why the city was inundated.

Thanks to Brad Pitt, One Homecoming, One Reunion in New Orleans

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 08.30.2009 | Entertainment


Christina Bellantoni

This weekend, Robert Green slept in his own home in the Lower 9th Ward for the first time since Hurricane Katrina flattened his neighborhood and killed his mother and infant granddaughter.

It's a Small World for Obama as Health Care Joke Resurfaces

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics


Christina Bellantoni

File this under "You can't make this stuff up": a 13-month old joke about health care resurfaced today when President Obama held a town hall meeting in Raleigh.

Forget Being "Borked," She's Been "Sotomayored"

Karl Frisch | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media


Karl Frisch

It's clear the conservative press has little interest in ascertaining the veracity of right-wing smears against Sotomayor before advancing them.

The Simple Arithmetic of David Brooks' Deceitful Claims on Health Care Reform

David Fiderer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media


David Fiderer

Only a tiny percentage of millionaires would ever pay a significant dollar amount for the tax surcharge associated with health care reform. To obscure this obvious truth, David Brooks has launched a series of deceptions.

Say What? White House Uses Twitter, FTW!

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 08.31.2009 | Media


Christina Bellantoni

In a first that should be noted in the presidential archives, the White House on Friday used the Twitter feed to announce to more than 726,000 followers that Obama is holding a press conference Wednesday night.

POTUS Loves Sports

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics


Christina Bellantoni

From making March Madness bracket picks in the White House Map Room to thanking Russians for Washington Capitals hockey star Alex Ovechkin, Obama is embracing his role as America's No. 1 sports fan.

MoveOn Targets the White House as Health Care Fight Rages

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics


Christina Bellantoni

Keying off the furor over chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's Wall Street Journal remarks on health care that I blogged about earlier, MoveOn is activating its 3.2 million membership list.

Conservative Media vs. Progressive Media

Cenk Uygur | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media


Cenk Uygur

Do you know how many people read The Weekly Standard? 80,000. To put it bluntly, that's pathetic. Its main purpose is to spread Republican propaganda in the guise of news.

Around the World With President Obama

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics


Christina Bellantoni

The trip abroad with President Obama was a bit of a whirlwind. Here are photos from the trip, along with original video that offes a glimpse into what it's like traveling with Obama abroad.