Wash Times Announces Resignation Of Executive Editor John Solomon

[Newsjock]

Source: Talking Points Memo

It's official: The Washington Times has announced the resignation of Executive Editor John Solomon -- effective six days ago.

Here's the one-line statement that Don Meyer, a spokesman for the Washington Times and a partner at Rubin Meyer Communications, emailed TPM moments ago.

Effective November 6, 2009, John Solomon has resigned his position as the Executive Editor of The Washington Times.

Read more: http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/wash-times-executive-editor-john-solomon-resigns.php?ref=fpa

[annabanana]

1. Does it matter which Moon ends up in charge?

or are they pale satellites around daddy?

[Captain Hilts]

2. Solomon was a lousy Wash Post reporter, I guess he was lousy at the Moonie Times too. nt

[DainBramaged]

3. Jesus, pretty soon, the Pukes won't have anything to wipe their asses with....

Most just can't afford the Wall Street Journal, and the NY Post isn't really sold outside of NYC. I guess sales of sandpaper will increase.

[UpInArms]

4. related: Robert Parry explains the demise of Wash Times

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/111109.html

However, things haven’t gone as planned, with an apparent succession struggle breaking out between two of Moon’s sons, Hyun Jin “Preston” Moon and a younger brother, Hyung-jin Moon, with the Washington Times emerging as one of the battlefields.

This week, three top executives – Times publisher Thomas McDevitt, chairman Dong Moon Joo (not a Moon son), and chief financial officer Keith Cooperrider – were ousted as part of a power struggle that has been simmering for months.

In one recent rant at his New York estate, Sun Myung Moon even warned that he might shut down the Washington Times because of his anger over the dissension.

“Even if I get rid of the Washington Times, I can create a better newspaper company in Russia or China within six months,” Moon told a gathering of his Unification Church followers on Sept. 18, 2009, according to notes published at a Moon Web site.

“I worry whether to keep the Washington Times alive. The Washington Times has to take responsibility for people going to hell in America.”

Moon then ordered several Washington Times executives to hug each other, including two of the executives, McDevitt and Dong Moon Joo, who were fired this week.

At the same bizarre Sept. 18 gathering, Moon added, “I did not come here for the Washington Times; I came to the U.S. to build a Peace Army and Peace Police, not to solve the Washington Times problem. This is much more important than the Washington Times.”

Moon boasted that, “Even in America now, I know about 70% of the 200 main people in the media world. How could I know them? It’s because Heaven taught me and God taught me about them. Do you understand?”

Though Moon’s acolytes have often tried to portray Moon as a great admirer of the United States, his private comments have long revealed his contempt for American democratic values and the nation’s respect for individualism.

In speeches to Unification Church members, Moon has vowed to subjugate the United States through a political takeover that would involve liquidating Americans who resisted.

one can only hope for a swift death

[rooboy]

6. "The Washington Times has to take responsibility for people going to hell in America..."

Yep.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. He actually put some reforms in place at the Washington Times.

Before he got there, the WT referred to gay marriange as homosexual "marriage." The quotation marks were always used. John Solomon put an end to that. He also got the WT to use the word gay rather than homosexual.

There's always something good you can say about somebody.

Except Cheney.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Still waiting for the Sludge Siren headline about this....

Guess I'll have to :boring: a little longer.

:rofl: