Moonies will no longer prop up Washington Times

[janet118]

From Boston Globe business section

WASHINGTON — Washington Times executives are negotiating to sell the newspaper after the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s family cut off most of the annual subsidy of about $35 million that has kept the Unification Church-backed paper afloat, company officials said.

Nicholas Chiaia, a member of the paper’s two-man board of directors and president of the church-owned United Press International wire service, confirmed that the paper is actively on the market.

How come all these conservatives use so much of their money supporting non-revenue producing media outlets? How come so many right-wing books end up on the best seller list? Why are there so few liberal radio talk shows?

Why can't we liberals have our own newspaper, radio and television outlets? Where are our "think tanks" to funnel tax-deductible donations to left wing causes? Why are there no rich liberals willing to back left-wing media?

[Ozymanithrax]

1. It is called propaganda...n/t

[mucifer]

2. I think there aren't any multi-billionaires who are truly liberal and would

invest their money that way.

[janet118]

5. I think it's connected to religion myself

Lots of those right-wing money trees have roots in fundamentalist religious organizations which serve as money laundering operations for corporate lobbyists. Religious organizations filled with intolerant, delusional true believers who can't wait for the end times when they can finally say "Nyah, nyah . . . see! God/Allah/Jehovah was on our side!" to the rest of us can produce lots of media funding.

The joke is that they are really corporate tools. Corporations are soulless, amoral and inhuman. The definition of evil in most religions.

[JawJaw]

13. Millionaire Liberals

I remember Malloy banging on about this a few years ago. He was furious that the likes of Michael Moore and a few others couldn't club together and fund a proper progressive radio network.

[zbdent]

14. but then you forget the maniacal blatherings of the RW lunatics

who see Soros's hand in everything ...

[Liberal Veteran]

3. I give it a day before Rupert Murdoch snaps up this prime cherry.

:eyes:

[lazarus]

4. honestly

I think liberals don't need the echo-chamber the way conservatives do, especially in old media. We get our echo-chamber on the series of tubes, like DU and DailyKOS.

I know we didn't listen to Air America (while it was here in San Diego) except occasionally in the car. Didn't need to. What we need are media that will be truly fair and balanced, because the truth has a liberal bias.

[janet118]

6. We do need mass media . . .

that determines what news is broadcast to the vast segment of the population that does not visit the sites you mention. Only when a YouTube video or blog post is picked up by mass media does it become an issue. Also, the blogs get a lot of their info from mass media. The war in Iraq would never have happened if there were no mass media to push for it.

[lazarus]

7. Again

I think we just need fact-based media. Heck, the Republicans will scream it's liberal anyway, if it doesn't follow the Faux model. Reality is liberal. The liberal hours with Keith and Rachel more than satisfy me, and they're not even that partisan. They're not nearly as partisan as Faux is, but they're considered the Glenn Becks of the left.

[janet118]

8. I agree we need fact-based mass media

The fact-based media you refer to is what I call liberal. Your description is a better one. Instead of giving equal credence to lies, facts should take precedence. The truth is out there, but it needs to be broadcast more widely.

[lazarus]

9. cool

we're in agreement after all. :hi:

[nxylas]

10. But...but...we have the New York Times and MSNBC and NPR

Fox News is just balancing out all those liberal TV networks and newspapers :sarcasm:

[era veteran]

11. Where are the street moonies from yesteryear?

Would you like a free flower/ incense? Would you please make a donation to the Rev. Sun Myung blah, blah, blah? Would you like a free news company? Would you please make a donation to the Rev. Blah. This cult sure evolved ( as if these brain washed folks could actually evolve). I have a few moonie stories but no interaction in years. Where did these 'seekers' go?

[keepdemocracy]

12. There is a reason

I've watched this happen over the last 20 years. The right wing are operating very effective 'culture wars' that is not unlike the old McCarthy techniques, but directed at a much broader range of people, and adapted to the times and current technology. Progressive people have been pushed out of the system -- set up to lose influence, jobs, income, anything that threatens the conservative agenda. The more direct answer to your question is that few progressives now have any money to bolster progressive media, and it was planned that way. If you think that's 'conspiracy theory', then go back and read documented and footnoted issues of Mother Jones from the early 1980s before it changed ownership. Or read the original bibliographies of original research by researchers on fascism like Mae Brussell. Progressives have been strangled and locked out of the system systematically over time. Most of all that remains are corporatists who are willing to support social-liberal causes but not threaten monopoly corporatism. It was part of the original plan of the Bush-controlled Reagan agenda and the Gramm-Rudman-related political plan. Like the McCarthyists, they demonized anyone and anything threatening corporate oligarchy as 'liberal', which became the neo-McCarthyist term functioning in their minds as 'communist' or 'communist sympathizer' did to the McCarthyists. The New Right fascists have set up a Monopoly gameboard where no one else but them can play, and everyone else is either sent to jail or set up to go bankrupt.

[janet118]

15. Thanks . . . I've read Brock's book . . .

and I don't think that it's a conspiracy theory.

I still wish that some mega rich person - a left wing Mellon or Koch - would invest in think tanks or leftie media. Instead, they avoid anything that comes near to the political in favor of helping Burma or the Sudan or Greenpeace or the ASPCA or whatever. All fine causes, but what good will they do when we live in a third world oligarchy.

I just happened to notice your post. Glad I did.