WTF!?!?!?!!?!!?!?!!?!?!?!

[cool user name]

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/02/1570946.php

[cboy4]

1. That is outrageous. Are you kidding me!?!??! WTF.....

25 cents for a newspaper?!?

;)

[wakeme2008]

6. :) the Tampa Tribune and the St. Pete Times are Still 25 cents

Times is 50 cents on Sundays in Tampa and the Tri 1.00 :) That is the only thing I will miss now that I am leaving Florida.

[cboy4]

7. Oh come on, deep down inside, you're ALSO going to miss the

crooked voting machines. :)

[ovidsen]

8. A two bit attack on the Moonie Times

Of course, the late Katherine Graham would never had admitted to stooping so low.

But Sun Myung Moon's rag had to match that $0.25 price, costing the religious and political fringe nut and convicted felon tons of money.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!

[lies and propaganda]

10. hhhhhhhhhhhhhh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[lies and propaganda]

11. yesterdays Jeff Gannon....

[Cooley Hurd]

2. This was a hot topic on DU a few years ago...

:popcorn:

[Maraya1969]

21. Yea in the Jeff Gannon days. Amazing that it STILL NEVER ENDED

UP IN MSM. 50 million to prosecute Clinton for a blow job and a male prostitute roaming around GW Bush's "ban gay marriage amendment" White House gets nothing.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. old story but nice to see it still getting attention

[earth mom]

4. This has been posted here before...

disgusting isn't it?! :puke: That's the BFEE for ya. :grr:

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[LiberalEsto]

9. I KNOW someone named in that article!!!

Mark Tapscott, the Washington Times reporter who was involved in that and fired, was once my boss. He is a slimy piece of rethug #@$%^!&.

I worked as a reporter for the Montgomery Journal in Rockville, MD, in 1997 when he was hired as managing editor. He immediately set to work trumping up excuses to get rid of anyone on the staff who was left of center. He used to harass one guy for having long hair and for smoking (outside the building).

He used to peer out of his glass-enclosed office at my computer screen. Once I accidentally hit a wrong button, and before I could figure out how to undo it, he was hovering over me telling me I wasn't supposed to have that on my screen. It was completely innocuous, but the guy micromanaged everything and was apparently looking for an excuse to get rid of me.

The Journal had been a fairly liberal paper up until then. In a single year, 13 staffers including myself left in disgust. He hired far right-wing columnists and got rid of liberal ones. A few of my friends who hung on were miserable. I was so fed up I decided to leave journalism, and became a marketing writer. I had been a reporter since 1972 and spent years at a big urban daily paper.

Tapscott was a perfect example of why the U.S. media is as horribly messed up as it is today. People like him worked their way into the news media in the 1990s and turned it biased and pro-republican.

Tapscott even looked unpleasant. He had a greased-back Reagan haircut, and wore white shirts, suspenders and little bow ties. (My husband says anyone who wears suspenders and bow ties is a jerk, but I suppose there may be exceptions.)

One of my happiest moments there during his regime was when we found out about his past history and firing from the Washington Times over the White House sex scandal mentioned in this article. I could never look at him again without giggling.

In my opinion he ran that paper into the ground. It eventually folded. He finally left for a job with the ultra right-wing Heritage Foundation, among his ilk.

[Sapphocrat]

12. My condolences...

...for ever knowing him.

You should read his blog sometime. I did once, and had to keep convincing myself it wasn't satire.

[LiberalEsto]

14. I couldn't...

it would bring up the bad memories all over again.

I only wish the guy was a caricature. I wouldn't be surprised if he was a close buddy of KKKarl Rove.

[Burried News]

17. Another mission accomplished ... thanks for your story.

These personal stories are gems. I learn more from them than anything else.

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[AntiFascist]

15. That's what happens when religious repression meets politics...

the rumor is that by threatening to expose this, Moon has gained incredible power in D.C.

[savemefromdumbya]

16. Guess Jeff Gannon was too young then?

[Catrina]

25. Not really, he's in his forties now

so he would have been in his twenties ~

[starroute]

18. Bush and Moon

One of the big puzzles has been why the Moonie Times, of all papers, would have broken this story.

A plausible, though unconfirmed theory, is that it was Moon's way of making George H.W. Bush an offer he couldn't refuse -- and that the subsequent blackmail is why the Bushes in general have been so quick to do Moon's bidding in the years since.

It would certainly explain a lot . . .

[Cleita]

22. Did Moon own the Times that far back?

I remember when Moon bought the Times Helen Thomas quit because she refused to work for Moon, but I didn't think it was that long ago. Senior memory loss here.

:shrug:

[Cleita]

23. Okay I found something.

http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=12482

WASHINGTON — Helen Thomas, the grande dame of American journalism and for decades the public persona of the beleaguered wire service United Press International, said today she would leave UPI because of its sale to the news affiliate of the Unification Church.

Thomas, who will turn 80 on Aug. 4, made her announcement in a brief statement read to reporters by one of her colleagues at the White House. She did not make herself available for additional comment.

"I do not intend to stay," said Thomas, who, as senior White House correspondent, has earned the privilege of closing all presidential press conferences with the words "Thank you, Mr. President."

Okay I got the wrong newspaper.

[starroute]

24. Here's the exact date

http://www.rickross.com/reference/unif/unif162.html

Moon, guests celebrate 20th anniversary of The Washington Times
Associated Press/May 22, 2002

Washington -- The Rev. Sun Myung Moon and a crowd of 3,000 celebrated the 20th anniversary of the newspaper he founded, The Washington Times, in the nation's capital.

Moon, the 82-year-old leader of the Unification Church, started the Times on May 17, 1982, nine months after The Washington Star closed. The Times has a daily circulation of 110,120 and a strong following among political conservatives in the U.S. capital for its editorial philosophy.

The other newspaper in the nation's capital is the Washington Post.

Moon has invested more than $1billion dollars in his News World Communications, which recently bought United Press International.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

27. Papa Bush, soon after leaving office wound up doing a speech in SoAmerica

for Messiah Moonie........ IMHO there is definitely a direct connection.

[FUGW]

19. What ever, do they have anything on Clinton? now that would be news.

[Rageneau]

20. An old story that was quickly squelched by the MSM

This shudder-inducing story was immediately covered up by the NYT, WP and all the networks -- which IMO is itself conclusive proof that the media is in the hands of the wingnuts. (And maybe because some prominent media names turned up in it.)

The only anomaly to that inference is that the story WAS covered -- as we can all see from the headlines -- by none other than the Moony Times.

Why would the Washington Times publish an embarrassing story about Republicans than no other media outlet would publish?

Maybe because this story was handled the way Karl Rove has handled and defused every bad but true story about Smirk that came along -- by putting the truth out there just enough so that he can later say "All that has been covered. It's old news."

Which is exactly what you will hear if you ask today's MSM why they never looked into this.

[HamdenRice]

26. DU was all over this during the Gannon/Guckert scandal

It appears that for some strange purely coincidental reasons bush father and son seem to have these recurring connections to male hookers, although with poppy they always seem to be underage boys.

Wanna read something scary?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3238821&mesg_id=3238821