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"'antidote' to its "liberal competitor," The Washington Post: "The Washington Post became very arrogant and they just decided that they would determine what was news and what wasn't news and they wouldn't cover a lot of things that went on. And the Washington Times has forced the Post to cover a lot of things that they wouldn't cover if the Times wasn't in existence." [1]
Reporter Bill Gertz is famed for producing a number of scoops based on sources in the American intelligence community. Former editor and early Sun Myung Moon follower Josette Shiner was appointed U.S. Deputy Trade Representative in 2003.
The Washington Times Corporation also publishes the New York Noticias Del Mundo , the weekly Insight newsmagazine , and the monthly World&I . Insight provided additional funding to Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton, allowing the suit to continue after her own funding ran out. The Washington Times Foundation has also sponsored workshops on morality, such as a recent "God and Peace" forum attended by Moon, Sen. Richard G. Lugar, and White House officials, as well as donating money to the George H. W. Bush presidential library.
The Times has a circulation of approximately 100,000 a day, versus about 700,000 for the Washington Post. It should not be confused with the Washington Times established in 1893, which became the Washington Times-Herald and was merged with the Washington Post in 1954.
The Unification Church calls Rev. Sun Myung Moon the "founder" of the Times:
However, the Unification Church has been willing to run the paper at a loss to provide a political voice. In 2003, the New Yorker claimed that a billion dollars had been spent since the paper's inception. Critics of the Unification Church claim that operation of the Times is part of an attempt by the Unification Church to gain political influence in Washington, D.C.; to back up this claim, they also refer to the purchase of the UPIUnited Press International UPI is a global news agency headquartered in the United States filing news in English, Spanish and Arabic. Once one of the three biggest news agencies in the world, with Associated Press and Reuters, it has dwindled in size and newswire service by the Church in 20012001 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall ap -- a move that gives the Unification Church a press seat on Air Force OneThis article is about the aircraft. For the movie, see Air Force One (movie). Air Force One is the air traffic control callsign of any U. Air Force aircraft carrying the President of the United States. Since 1990, the presidential fleet has consisted of t. The "Times" was also President Ronald Reagan's preferred newspaper.
Despite being owned by the Unification Church, it claims to be independent of the Church, and claims not to propagate the Church's teachings directly. (Compare Christian Science MonitorThe Christian Science Monitor is an international daily newspaper published Monday through Friday. It was founded in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist. The paper relies primarily on its own reporters in bureaus in ele.) The Times is in favor of many topics other Christian conservative organizations support, including religious freedom for Christians worldwide and a dislike of government interference in private life. The Times states that it does not proselytize directly for the Unification Church.