Washington Times ex-editor sues, wants paper sold

By David Edwards and Gavin Dahl
Sunday, November 29th, 2009 -- 3:13 pm
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Richard Miniter, a former editor at The Washington Times, is suing the paper for forcing him to attend a church event when he was first hired last year and other stress-inducing conditions.

The paper has generated unprecedented headlines in recent weeks as three executives have been fired and its top editor has resigned.

In an interview on CNN, Miniter discussed the inner-workings of the paper, as revealed in his affidavit. He said the paper is losing about $40 million a year. "In fact the paper has lost money for more than 27 straight years," he said.

Miniter believes the Unification Church, founded by Rev. Sun Myung Moon, is an unfit newspaper owner, bent on unethical control of the newspaper. "The church actually doles the money out in weekly amounts in order to keep complete control over the paper," he said.

After months of attempts to reach a settlement, he says he is hoping to be paid the money he is owed and would like to see The Washington Times sold.

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  • palmharbor11
    Wait, losing money? Conservatives would never support a company that cannot make a profit...now would they? They don't believe in hand outs to support an organization that cannot support itself...could they?
    Newscorp should buy it...and let it lose more money
  • SouthernYankee
    Losing money, awe yeah because they are to busy giving it to the right wingers.
  • sjacksonlee
    Miniter is, and always has been a liar. The one thing he was not made to answer was, why did he take the job if he found the unification church service so "creepy"? Further, he insists that in being compelled to go it was McDivett that asked made him go... McDivett (last I heard) was fired too. Is he really worth paying attention too?
  • SouthernYankee
    I don't know any of these people at the paper but I am getting pretty sick and tired of Moon and Murdock running american newspapers for the own political gains. These two creeps need to be sent packing. Especially Moon. I think he is screwup in the head.
  • edwards_com
    I don't believe anything I read or see..
  • SouthernYankee
    I had a friend once and she was a judge and I think had she still been living she would be shocked how this country has gone down hill.
  • davidrvelasquez
    They're a sect in every sense of the word.
    In the 1970's they were publicly vilified for practicing brainwashing on its members. But in contributing so heavily to the GOP Rev.Moon has bought legitimacy from those conservatives who could give them a more public friendly spin. The GOP is just top heavy with all these extremist religious sects supporting it. Small wonder its collective politic comes off so deranged.
  • slopnbop
    If he can take down Moon's agit-prop bandstand he can tell as many lies as he wants.
  • friendofthestate
    Get rid of Sun Myung Moon. The man is evil.
  • SouthernYankee
    You know if this Moon had been a liberal you would of heard hell from the right.
  • Steve
    It has been suggested that Rush Limbaugh might buy the Times.
  • Schmice
    Good, let him put his money into that rat hole. I hope it bleeds him dry.
  • SouthernYankee
    Well now you see. Buy american and continue the hate speech.
  • Heil Mary
    OK folks, since I work in publishing in the DC area and have temped at all kinds of companies -- associations, magazines, design studios, and NEWSPAPERS, I have actually met Mr. McDevitt AND HE IS ONE NICE MAN, even if I am a LIBERAL! I was thrilled when I heard him state twice that The Washington Times was moving to the political center. (Okay, right of center, to be more precise, but that's a major, major improvement, considering that The Washington Post has jerked itself to the right to steal The Times' business. The Post has really littered its opinion pages with GOP hucksters, so I blame much of the damaging Bush junta on the overrated Washington Post and New York Times cravenly kowtowing to the Bushistas.) Moreover, many Democrats and minorities work at The Washington Times because of the falling job market, and they were ecstatic when Obama won. Also, the marketing and finance people were delighted to sell extra collector copies of Obama's historic win and his inaugural.

    Regarding Miniter, since he is already a neo con, I don't quite understand his beef. What did he expect?? Attending a mass wedding hardly sounds tortuous, although a Bollywood wedding would be much more fun. Through temping, I have met Unification, Baptist, Seventh Day Adventist (Robert Stacy McCain) and Catholic Washington Times employees, and the Unification members always seemed the most normal, witty and friendly. I don't know why people would single out the Unification Church as too controlling, when other denominations, the RCC especially, have enormous genocide and sex abuse scandals spanning two thousand years that dwarf the newbie Unification Church, and the worst behavior I observed in Times employees was in homophobic tantrums by McCain and his racist, adulterous mentor, Fran Coombs who both blessedly quit. Though I would never join the Unification and know very little of its tenets, it struck me as a blend of Eastern and Western religions. Its biggest problem was adopting the corrupt GOP and Nazi Bush crime family as vehicles of survival in the U.S. Having suffered years of harrowing unemployment and under employment because of my Catholic abuse-scarred face, I just hope everyone in the DC area (including caught-in-the-cross-fire Washington Times employees) and everyone across the globe survive the economic collapse caused by the Bushes and their Nazi pedophile Vatican. I hope print newspapers realize that to survive by attracting more readers, they need to expose Bush and Vatican war crimes. Sometimes The Washington Times did bravely report on Catholic Church scandals.
  • SouthernYankee
    The moonie are not a religion they are a cult. As a catholic I can tell you not just the catholic church has a pedophile problem. Just in the small rural town I live in there was a Baptist youth minister that went to jail and there are others to. What the catholic church did wasn't right and they should be held accountable but so do allot of other religious churchs. You can see you hate catholics. I have been a catholic all my 61 years and never met a priest that touched children. I even worked for catholic priest at a military base. Not all priest are bad. The coverup is and they should be procuted for it.
  • nikto
    Reverend Moon is the True Messiah.

    Jesus has been replaced.

    That's what Moon says.

    And don't you forget it.
  • SouthernYankee
    Yup, just because Moon keeps repeating it doesn't make it so. Just like the Republican Fox Network or their party. It ain't so.
  • dennycrane
    This will be as big as when the white supremist "Butler" had to give his property in Idaho to the Black's.
  • damixaustex
    Quarter million a year seems to have kept Miniter well fed.
    Miniter went to work for a church newspaper and knew it. This lawsuit has no basis.
    Read his affadavit. He's trying to draw attention to himself and is using RS and TPM to do it.
    Yawn.
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