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A page in the Sunday edition was devoted to the [[American Civil War]], oftentimes glorifying the Confederacy.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/13039788/just-like-old-times-at-the-washington-times|title=Just Like Old Times at ''The Washington Times''?|work=Washington City Paper|access-date=2018-10-30|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":7" /> In 1993, Pruden gave an interview to the neo-Confederate magazine ''Southern Partisan'' where he said, "Every year I make sure that we have a story in the paper about any observance of Robert E. Lee’s birthday".<ref name=":7" /> Pruden said, "And the fact that it falls around Martin Luther King’s birthday," to which a ''Southern Partisan'' interviewer interjected, "Makes it all the better," with Pruden finishing, "I make sure we have a story. Oh, yes."<ref name=":7" /> |
A page in the Sunday edition was devoted to the [[American Civil War]], oftentimes glorifying the Confederacy.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/13039788/just-like-old-times-at-the-washington-times|title=Just Like Old Times at ''The Washington Times''?|work=Washington City Paper|access-date=2018-10-30|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":7" /> In 1993, Pruden gave an interview to the neo-Confederate magazine ''Southern Partisan'' where he said, "Every year I make sure that we have a story in the paper about any observance of Robert E. Lee’s birthday".<ref name=":7" /> Pruden said, "And the fact that it falls around Martin Luther King’s birthday," to which a ''Southern Partisan'' interviewer interjected, "Makes it all the better," with Pruden finishing, "I make sure we have a story. Oh, yes."<ref name=":7" /> |
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''The Times'' employed [[Samuel T. Francis]], a white nationalist, as a columnist and editor.''<ref name=":9">Heidi Berich and Kevin Hicks, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=M7p6TDR1zwcC White Nationalism in America]" in ''Hate Crimes'' (ed. Barbara Perr: Praeger, 2009), pp. 112–13.</ref>''<ref name=":10">{{Cite news|url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/aug/16/secret-history-trumpism-donald-trump|title=The dark history of Donald Trump's rightwing revolt|last=Shenk|first=Timothy|date=2016-08-16|work=The Guardian|access-date=2018-12-24|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Fascism: Post-war fascisms|last=Griffin|first=Roger|last2=Feldman|first2=Matthew|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|isbn=|location=|pages=155}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781134201570/chapters/10.4324/9780203402191-10|title=The American radical right|last=Potok|first=Mark|date=|website=www.taylorfrancis.com|page=59|doi=10.4324/9780203402191-10|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-12-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/isbn/9780253220714|title=Habits of Whiteness|last=MacMullan|first=Terrance|date=2009|website=Indiana University Press|page=147|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-12-24}}</ref> In 1995, Francis resigned or was forced out from the ''Times'' after [[Dinesh D'Souza]] reported on racist comments that Francis made at a conference hosted by the white supremacist magazine ''[[American Renaissance (magazine)|American Renaissance]]''.''<ref name=":9" /><ref name="Kurtz">[[Howard Kurtz]], [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/10/19/washington-times-clips-its-right-wing/dd009c93-883b-446c-bbbf-94c0a0570a1a/ Washington Times Clips Its Right Wing], ''The Washington Post'', October 19, 1995.</ref><ref name=":10" />''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/23/us/politics-on-the-move-buchanan-drawing-extremist-support-and-problems-too.html|title=POLITICS: ON THE MOVE;Buchanan Drawing Extremist Support, And Problems, Too|last=Frantz|first=Douglas|date=1996-02-23|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-12-24|last2=Janofsky|first2=Michael|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> At the conference, Francis called on whites to "reassert our identity and our solidarity, and we must do so in explicitly racial terms through the articulation of a racial consciousness as whites... The civilization that we as whites created in Europe and America could not have developed apart from the genetic endowments of the creating people."''<ref name="Kurtz" />'' When Francis died in 2005, the ''Times'' wrote a "glowing" obituary that omitted his racist and white nationalist beliefs, as well as his firing from ''The Times. |
''The Times'' employed [[Samuel T. Francis]], a white nationalist, as a columnist and editor.''<ref name=":9">Heidi Berich and Kevin Hicks, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=M7p6TDR1zwcC White Nationalism in America]" in ''Hate Crimes'' (ed. Barbara Perr: Praeger, 2009), pp. 112–13.</ref>''<ref name=":10">{{Cite news|url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/aug/16/secret-history-trumpism-donald-trump|title=The dark history of Donald Trump's rightwing revolt|last=Shenk|first=Timothy|date=2016-08-16|work=The Guardian|access-date=2018-12-24|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Fascism: Post-war fascisms|last=Griffin|first=Roger|last2=Feldman|first2=Matthew|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|isbn=|location=|pages=155}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781134201570/chapters/10.4324/9780203402191-10|title=The American radical right|last=Potok|first=Mark|date=|website=www.taylorfrancis.com|page=59|doi=10.4324/9780203402191-10|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-12-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/isbn/9780253220714|title=Habits of Whiteness|last=MacMullan|first=Terrance|date=2009|website=Indiana University Press|page=147|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-12-24}}</ref> In 1995, Francis resigned or was forced out from the ''Times'' after [[Dinesh D'Souza]] reported on racist comments that Francis made at a conference hosted by the white supremacist magazine ''[[American Renaissance (magazine)|American Renaissance]]''.''<ref name=":9" /><ref name="Kurtz">[[Howard Kurtz]], [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/10/19/washington-times-clips-its-right-wing/dd009c93-883b-446c-bbbf-94c0a0570a1a/ Washington Times Clips Its Right Wing], ''The Washington Post'', October 19, 1995.</ref><ref name=":10" />''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/23/us/politics-on-the-move-buchanan-drawing-extremist-support-and-problems-too.html|title=POLITICS: ON THE MOVE;Buchanan Drawing Extremist Support, And Problems, Too|last=Frantz|first=Douglas|date=1996-02-23|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-12-24|last2=Janofsky|first2=Michael|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> At the conference, Francis called on whites to "reassert our identity and our solidarity, and we must do so in explicitly racial terms through the articulation of a racial consciousness as whites... The civilization that we as whites created in Europe and America could not have developed apart from the genetic endowments of the creating people."''<ref name="Kurtz" />'' When Francis died in 2005, the ''Times'' wrote a "glowing" obituary that omitted his racist and white nationalist beliefs, as well as his firing from ''The Times.'' |
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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Operations Holdings (via The Washington Times, LLC) |
Founder(s) | Sun Myung Moon |
Publisher | Larry Beasley |
Editor-in-chief | Christopher Dolan |
General manager | David Dadisman[1] |
News editor | Victor Morton |
Managing editor, design | Cathy Gainor |
Opinion editor | Charles Hurt |
Sports editor | David Eldridge |
Founded | May 17, 1982 |
Language | English |
Headquarters | 3600 New York Avenue NE Washington, D.C., U.S. |
City | Washington, D.C. |
Country | United States |
Circulation | 59,185 daily (as of November 2013)[2] |
ISSN | 0732-8494 |
OCLC number | 8472624 |
Website | www |
The Washington Times is an American daily newspaper that covers general interest topics with a particular emphasis on American politics. It was founded on May 17, 1982, by Unification movement leader Sun Myung Moon and owned by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate founded by Moon, until 2010, when Moon and a group of former executives purchased the paper. It is currently owned by the conglomerate Operations Holdings, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Unification movement.[3][4] Its daily edition is distributed throughout the District of Columbia and sections of Maryland and Virginia. A weekly tabloid edition aimed at a national audience is also published.[5]
Often described as a conservative newspaper,[6][7][8][9] The Washington Times was seen as a media ally of the Republican Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations.[10][11] Under Wes Pruden's editorship (1992–2008), the paper was known for its hardline stances, drew controversy for publishing racially incendiary commentary and conspiracy theories about Democratic president Barack Obama[12][13][14][15][16][17] and was criticized for racially charged content.[17] Since 1997, it has published many columns rejecting the scientific consensus on climate change.[18][19][20]
History
Beginnings
The Washington Times was founded in 1982 by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the Unification movement which also owns newspapers in South Korea, Japan, and South America, as well as the news agency United Press International.[21] Bo Hi Pak, the chief aide of church founder and leader Sun Myung Moon, was the founding president and the founding chairman of the board.[22] Moon asked Richard L. Rubenstein, a rabbi and college professor who had written on the Holocaust, to serve on the board of directors.[23] The Times's first editor and publisher was James R. Whelan.
At the time of founding of The Washington Times, Washington had only one major newspaper, The Washington Post. Massimo Introvigne, in his 2000 book The Unification Church, said that the Post had been "the most anti-Unificationist paper in the United States."[24] In 2002, at an event held to celebrate the Times's 20th anniversary, Moon said: "The Washington Times is responsible to let the American people know about God" and "The Washington Times will become the instrument in spreading the truth about God to the world."[25]
The Times was founded the year after the Washington Star, the previous "second paper" of D.C., went out of business. A large percentage of the staff came from the Washington Star. When the Times began, it was unusual among American broadsheets in publishing a full color front page, along with full color front pages in all its sections and color elements throughout. It also used ink that it advertised as being less likely to come off on the reader's hands than the type used by the Post.[26] When the Times began it had 125 reporters, 25 percent of them Unification Church members.[27]
Some former employees, including The Washington Times's first editor and publisher, James R. Whelan, have insisted that it was always under Moon's control. Whelan, whose contract guaranteed editorial autonomy, left the paper when the owners refused to renew the contract, asserting that "I have blood on my hands" for helping Moon acquire legitimacy.[28] Three years later, editorial page editor William P. Cheshire and four of his staff resigned, charging that, at the explicit direction of Sang Kook Han, a top official of the Unification movement, then-editor Arnaud de Borchgrave had stifled editorial criticism of political repression in South Korea.[29] In 1982, Times refused to publish film critic Scott Sublett's negative review of the movie Inchon, which was also sponsored by the Unification movement.[30]
After a brief editorship under Smith Hempstone, Arnaud de Borchgrave (formerly of the United Press International and Newsweek) was executive editor from 1985 to 1991.[31] During his tenure, The Times mounted a fund-raising drive for Contras rebels in Nicaragua and offered rewards for information leading to the arrest of Nazi war criminals.[32][33]
President Ronald Reagan is said to have read The Washington Times every day during his presidency.[10] In 1997 he said, "The American people know the truth. You, my friends at The Washington Times, have told it to them. It wasn't always the popular thing to do. But you were a loud and powerful voice. Like me, you arrived in Washington at the beginning of the most momentous decade of the century. Together, we rolled up our sleeves and got to work. And—oh, yes—we won the Cold War."[11]
Wesley Pruden editorship
Wesley Pruden was named executive editor of The Washington Times in 1992. During his editorship, the paper took a strongly conservative stance. Controversy ensued when Pruden was accused of pushing nativism.[34]
In 1992 North Korean president Kim Il Sung gave his first and only interview with the Western news media to Washington Times reporter Josette Sheeran (who later became Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme).[35]
In 1992, The Washington Times had only one-eighth the circulation of the Post (100,000 compared to 800,000) and that two-thirds of its subscribers also subscribed to the Post.[36] In 1994, The Washington Times introduced a weekly national edition. It was published in a tabloid format and distributed nationwide.[37]
In 1997 the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, which is critical of U.S. and Israeli policies, praised The Times, along with The Christian Science Monitor, owned by the Church of Christ, Scientist, and the Times sister publication The Middle East Times, for what it called their objective and informative coverage of Islam and the Middle East, while criticizing the generally pro-Israel editorial policy of the Times. The Report suggested that these newspapers, being owned by churches, were less influenced by pro-Israel pressure groups in the United States.[38] In 1998 the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram wrote that the Times editorial policy was "rabidly anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and pro-Israel."[39]
In 2004 the leadership of the Unification movement wanted The Washington Times to "support international organizations such as the United Nations and to campaign for world peace and interfaith understanding," which created difficulties for Pruden and the Times' numerous neoconservative columnists.[40]
In 2006 Moon's second oldest son Hyun Jin Moon, who had become president and CEO of the Times' parent company News World Communications, was in the process of ousting managing editor Francis Coombs because of accusations of racist editorializing. Coombs had made a number of racist and sexist comments, for which he was in the process of being sued by his colleagues.[41]
Post-Pruden years
In January 2008, Pruden retired and John F. Solomon began as executive editor of The Washington Times. Solomon had previously worked for the Associated Press and The Washington Post, and had most recently been head of investigative reporting and mixed media development at the Post.[42][43][44] Within a month, the Times changed some of its style guide to conform more to what was becoming mainstream media usage. The Times announced that it would no longer use words like "illegal aliens" and "homosexual," and in most cases opt for "more neutral terminology" like "illegal immigrants" and "gay," respectively. The paper also decided to stop using "Hillary" when referring to Senator Hillary Clinton, and the word "marriage" in the expression "gay marriage" would no longer appear in quotes in the newspaper. These changes in policy drew criticism from some conservatives.[45] Prospect magazine attributed the Times's apparent political moderation to differences of opinion over the United Nations and North Korea, and said: "The Republican right may be losing its most devoted media ally."[46]
In November 2009 The New York Times reported that The Washington Times would no longer be receiving funds from the Unification movement and might have to cease publication or go to online publication only.[47] Later that year, the Times fired 40 percent of its 370 employees and stopped its subscription service, instead distributing the paper free in some areas of Washington including branches of the government. A subscription website owned by the paper, theconservatives.com, continued, as did the Times three-hour radio program, "America's Morning News."[48] The Times announced that it would cease publication of its Sunday edition, along with other changes partly in order to end its reliance on subsidies from the Unification movement ownership.[49] On December 31, 2009, it announced that it would no longer be a full-service newspaper, eliminating its metropolitan-news and sports sections.[50][51]
In July 2010, the Unification movement issued a letter protesting the direction the Times was taking and urging closer ties between it and the church.[52] In August 2010, a deal was made to sell the Times to a group more closely related to the church. Editor in chief Sam Dealey said that this was a welcome development among the Times' staff.[53] In November 2010, Moon and a group of former Washington Times editors purchased the paper from News World Communications for $1. This ended a bitter feud within the Moon family that had been threatening to shut down the paper completely.[54] In March 2011 the Times announced that some former staffers would be rehired and that the paper would bring back its sports, metro, and life sections.[55] In June 2011, Ed Kelley, formerly of The Oklahoman, was hired as editor overseeing both news and opinion content.[56]
In 2012, Douglas D. M. Joo, stepped down as senior executive, president, and chairman of the Times.[57] Times president Tom McDevitt took his place as chairman, and Larry Beasley was hired as the company's new president and chief executive officer.[58]
In 2013, the Times worked Herring Networks to create the new conservative cable news channel One America News, which began broadcasting in mid‑2013.[59]
In July 2013, John F. Solomon returned as editor.[60][61]
Financial stability
In 1991, Moon said he had spent, between $900 million and $1 billion on The Times.[62] By 2002, Moon had spent between $1.7 billion and $2 billion according to different estimates.[63][64] The Times had its first profitable year in 2015, after 33 years of poor finances and lack of profitability.[65]
Political stance, content and controversies
The Washington Times holds a conservative political stance.[6][7][8][9] The Washington Post reported in 2002, "The Times was established by Moon to combat communism and be a conservative alternative to what he perceived as the liberal leanings of The Washington Post. Since then, the paper has fought to prove its editorial independence, trying to demonstrate that it is neither a "Moonie paper" nor a booster of the political right but rather a fair and balanced reporter of the news."[25]
In 2007 Mother Jones said that the Times had become "essential reading for political news junkies" soon after its founding, and described the paper as a "conservative newspaper with close ties to every Republican administration since Reagan."[66]
In a 2008 Harper's Magazine essay criticizing American conservatism, American historian[67] Thomas Frank linked the Times to the modern American conservative movement, saying, "There is even a daily newspaper—The Washington Times—published strictly for the movement's benefit, a propaganda sheet whose distortions are so obvious and so alien that it puts one in mind of those official party organs one encounters when traveling in authoritarian countries."[68]
In 2009, The New York Times noted that The Washington Times had been "a crucial training ground for many rising conservative journalists and a must-read for those in the movement. A veritable who's who of conservatives—Tony Blankley, Frank J. Gaffney Jr., Larry Kudlow, John Podhoretz and Tony Snow—has churned out copy for its pages."[47] The Columbia Journalism Review noted that reporters for the The Washington Times had used it as a springboard to other mainstream news outlets.[64]
In 2002 Post veteran Ben Bradlee said, "I see them get some local stories that I think the Post doesn't have and should have had."[69] In January 2011, conservative commentator Paul Weyrich said, "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."[70]
White supremacism and neo-Confederatism under Pruden's editorship
Under Pruden's editorship, the Times regularly printed excerpts from racist hard-right publications including VDARE and American Renaissance magazine, and Bill White, leader of the American National Socialist Workers' Party, in its Culture Briefs section.[17] Robert Stacy McCain, a member of the neo-Confederate hate group League of the South, was hired by the Times and promoted to edit the Culture Briefs section, which became, according to Max Blumenthal, "a bulletin board for the racialist far right."[71][72] Blumenthal also wrote that the Times was "characterized by extreme racial animus and connections to nativist and neo-Confederate organizations... from its earliest days the Times has been a hothouse for hard-line racialists and neo-Confederates."[71]
In a February 2013 article, the Columbia Journalism Review reported that under Pruden's editorship the Times was "a forum for the racialist hard right, including white nationalists, neo-Confederates, and anti-immigrant scare mongers."[17] Between 1998 and 2004, the Times covered every biennial American Renaissance conference, hosted by the white supremacist New Century Foundation. According to the Columbia Journalism Review, "the paper’s coverage of these events—which are hotbeds for holocaust deniers, neo-Nazis, and eugenicists—was stunningly one sided," which means it favorably depicted the conference and attendees.[17] In 2009, journalist David Neiwert wrote that the Times championed "various white-nationalist causes emanating from the neo-Confederate movement (with which, until a recent housecleaning, two senior editors had long associations."[73]
A page in the Sunday edition was devoted to the American Civil War, oftentimes glorifying the Confederacy.[17][74][71] In 1993, Pruden gave an interview to the neo-Confederate magazine Southern Partisan where he said, "Every year I make sure that we have a story in the paper about any observance of Robert E. Lee’s birthday".[71] Pruden said, "And the fact that it falls around Martin Luther King’s birthday," to which a Southern Partisan interviewer interjected, "Makes it all the better," with Pruden finishing, "I make sure we have a story. Oh, yes."[71]
The Times employed Samuel T. Francis, a white nationalist, as a columnist and editor.[75][76][77][78][79] In 1995, Francis resigned or was forced out from the Times after Dinesh D'Souza reported on racist comments that Francis made at a conference hosted by the white supremacist magazine American Renaissance.[75][80][76][81] At the conference, Francis called on whites to "reassert our identity and our solidarity, and we must do so in explicitly racial terms through the articulation of a racial consciousness as whites... The civilization that we as whites created in Europe and America could not have developed apart from the genetic endowments of the creating people."[80] When Francis died in 2005, the Times wrote a "glowing" obituary that omitted his racist and white nationalist beliefs, as well as his firing from The Times.
Climate change
The Times headlined its story about the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change, "Under the deal, the use of coal, oil and other fossil fuel in the United States would be cut by more than one-third by 2002, resulting in lower standards of living for consumers and a long-term reduction in economic growth."[82]
The Washington Times has published a number of columns that promote climate change denial.[18][19][20] In 2010, it published an article claiming that February 2010 snow storms "Undermin[e] The Case For Global Warming One Flake At A Time".[83] In 2014, The Washington Times said that a NASA scientist claimed that global warming was on a "hiatus" and that NASA had found evidence of global cooling; Rebecca Leber of the New Republic said that the NASA scientist in question said the opposite of what The Washington Times claimed.[84] In 2015, it published a column by Congressman Lamar Smith in which he argued that the work of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was "not good science, [but] science fiction."[20]
Obama falsehoods and conspiracy theories
In 2008, the Times published a column by Frank Gaffney that promoted the false conspiracy theories that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya and was courting the "jihadist vote." Gaffney also published pieces in 2009 and 2010 promoting the false claim that Obama is a Muslim.[12][13][14][15][16]
In a 2009 column entitled "'Inner Muslim' at work in Cairo", Pruden wrote that President Barack Obama is the "first president without an instinctive appreciation of the culture, history, tradition, common law and literature whence America sprang. The genetic imprint writ large in his 43 predecessors is missing from the Obama DNA."[17] In another 2009 column, Pruden wrote that Obama had “no natural instinct or blood impulse” for what America was about because he was “sired by a Kenyan father” and “born to a mother attracted to men of the Third World.”[17] These columns stirred controversy, leading the Times to assign David Mastio, the Deputy Editorial Page Editor, to edit Pruden's work.[17]
In 2016, the Times claimed that $3.6 million in federal funds were spent on a 2013 golf outing for President Obama and Tiger Woods. Snopes rated the article "mostly false", because the estimated cost included both official business travel and a brief presidential vacation in Florida.[85]
Seth Rich conspiracy theory op-ed
On March 1, 2018, the Times published a commentary piece by retired U.S. Navy admiral James A. Lyons which promoted conspiracy theories about the murder of Seth Rich. In the piece, Lyon claimed that it was "well known in intelligence circles that Seth Rich and his brother, Aaron Rich, downloaded the DNC emails and was paid by Wikileaks for that information."[8][86] The piece cited no evidence for the assertion.[8][87] Aaron Rich, the brother of Seth Rich and a subject of the false claim, filed a lawsuit against the Times, saying that it acted with "reckless disregard for the truth" and that it did not retract or remove the piece after "receiving notice of the falsity of the statements about Aaron after the publication".[8][88][87][89] On September 30, 2018, Rich's attorney, Michael Gottlieb, reported that Rich and the Times had settled their lawsuit and shortly after the settlement the Times issued an "unusually robust" retraction.[90][86]
Other controversies
Washington Times reporters visited imprisoned South African civil rights activist Nelson Mandela during the 1980s. Mandela wrote of them in his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom, "They seemed less intent on finding out my views than on proving that I was a Communist and a terrorist. All of their questions were slanted in that direction, and when I reiterated that I was neither a Communist nor a terrorist, they attempted to show that I was not a Christian either by asserting that the Reverend Martin Luther King never resorted to violence."[91][82]
Times reporter Peggy Weyrich quit in 1991 after one of her articles about Anita Hill's testimony in the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nominee hearings was rewritten to depict Hill as a "fantasizer."[82]
In a 1997 column for The Washington Times, Frank Gaffney falsely alleged a seismic incident in Russia was a nuclear detonation at that nation's Novaya Zemlya test site, which meant that Russia had violating the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTB).[92] Subsequent scientific analysis of the Novaya Zemlya event showed that it was a routine earthquake.[93] Reporting on the allegation, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists observed that, following its publication, "fax machines around Washington, D.C. and across the country poured out pages detailing Russian duplicity. They came from Frank Gaffney", going on to note that during the first four months of 1997, Gaffney had "issued more than 25 screeds" against the CTB.[92]
In 2002 the Times published a story accusing the National Educational Association (NEA), the largest teachers' union in the United States, of teaching students that the policies of the U.S. government were partly to blame for the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.[94] Brendan Nyhan (now a University of Michigan political science professor) wrote for Salon at the time that the Times story was a "lie" and a "myth".[94] The accusation was denied by the NEA.[95][96]
Staff
Editors-in-chief
- James R. Whelan (1982–1984)
- Smith Hempstone (1984–1986)
- Arnaud de Borchgrave (1986–1992)
- Wesley Pruden (1992–2008)
- John F. Solomon (2008–2009) (2013–2015)
- Sam Dealey (2010)
- Ed Kelley (2011–2012)
- David S. Jackson (2012–2013)
- Christopher Dolan (2015–present)
Managing editors
- Josette Sheeran Shiner (1992–1997)
Opinion editors
- Ann Crutcher (1984–1985)
- William P. Cheshire (1985–1987)
- Tony Snow (1987–1990)
- Tod Lindberg (1991–1998)
- Tony Blankley (2002–2007)
- Richard Miniter[97] (2009)
- Brett Decker (2009–2013)
- Wesley Pruden (2013)
- David Keene (2014–2016)
- Charles Hurt (2016–present)[98]
Current contributors
- Wesley Pruden (editor emeritus and opinion columnist)
- Bill Gertz ("Inside the Ring" columnist)
- Rowan Scarborough (national security writer)
- Donald Lambro (chief political correspondent)
- Jennifer Harper ("Inside the Beltway" columnist)
- Kelly Riddell ("Water Cooler" columnist)
- Joseph Curl (writer and columnist)
- Monica Crowley (online opinion editor and columnist)
- Lawrence Kudlow (economics columnist)
- Victor Davis Hanson (opinion columnist)
- Ben Carson (opinion columnist)
- Thom Loverro (sports columnist)
- Mark Kellner (religion columnist)
- Ernest Istook (opinion columnist)
- Rita Cook (automobile columnist)
- Newt Gingrich (opinion columnist)
- Jenny Beth Martin (opinion columnist)
- Richard W. Rahn (opinion columnist)
- R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. (opinion columnist)
- Clifford D. May (opinion columnist)
- Cal Thomas (opinion columnist)
- Robert H. Knight (opinion columnist)
- Herbert London (opinion columnist)
- Madison Gesiotto (opinion columnist)
- Peter Morici (opinion columnist)
- Tammy Bruce (opinion columnist)
- Charles Hurt (opinion columnist)
- Bruce Fein (opinion columnist)
- Janine Turner (opinion columnist)
- Jeffrey Birnbaum (columnist)
- Stephen Moore (opinion columnist)
- Mercedes Schlapp (opinion columnist)
- Ed Feulner (opinion columnist)
- Foster Friess (opinion columnist)
- Michael Hayden (opinion columnist)
- Allen West (opinion columnist)
Former contributors
Others
- Daniel Wattenberg: Arts and Entertainment editor
- Julia Duin: Religion editor
See also
- Media in Washington, D.C.
- The Washington Star (1852–1981)
- The Washington Post (1877–Present)
- Washington Times-Herald, a former D.C. daily newspaper founded by William Randolph Hearst as The Evening Times.[102]
- Washington Times-Herald, a Washington, Indiana newspaper.
References
- ^ http://twt-media.washtimes.com/media/misc/2016/05/26/RollingThunder_Final.pdf
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