Washington Times expected to cease newspaper publishing…
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116528
This was on my radar a few days ago from TPM…. apparently, the folks in Korea have had enough red ink and have given up operating the Washington DC area Conservative newspaper. It might continue to operate a web site, though…
Former editor Richard Miniter filed a religious discrimination complaint with the EEOC this week, claiming he was forced to attend a Unification Church ceremony. John Solomon, the Washington Times Executive Editor quit this week without explanation…. Solomon was a former AP guy who arrived and started issuing rules like “You can’t use the term illegal aliens”)…
Here is a message from the acting editor on their web site:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/19/note-twts-publisher/comments/
WND and the Washington Times are not adversaries – they work closely together on a lot of stories, so when WND says they have inside sources, I believe them.
TPM has more info about Miniter’s lawsuit here.
This looks really odd (but I’m not a lawyer)…. he’s claiming an EEOC violation – the remedy to which would be something like getting his job back and getting back wages….but his attorney is seeking an order to freeze the newspaper’s assets and do discovery on the newspaper’s finances, none of which are relevant to his complaint (unless the issue is the newspaper was going to hide all its assets to avoid paying him).
Weird.
No folowthrough yet – after hearing the NPR piece on this, I started to lean towards this being disinformation meant to rattle the people at the Times. Once in a while, the Korean / Moon stuff would creap into the paper, but for the most part their news was pretty straight – and they did go after Sacred Cows from time to time, especially on the local D.C. stories….
Speaking of which…. The Washington Times is breaking the story that Mullah Omar is now in Karachi, Pakistan with the assistance of the ISI, the Pakistani Secret Police.
Long time listeners to John Batchelor have heard (mostly via John Loftus) that the Talban were very much a creation of the ISI… if you wanted to call the Government in Kabul, your call had to be routed through the ISI switchboard.
That’s not quite to say that Pakistan was the force behind Al Queda and 9/11 – supposedly all of the Afghan Taliban leaders voted to turn over Bin Ladin to the U.S. – with one exception – Omar, and he had a veto on the issue.
There must be some interesting conversations going on behind the scenes with Pakistan. Maybe the reason President Obama is apparently stalling on the subject of escalation is that something big is imminent in Pakistan…