What’s Up At The Washington Times?
What’s Up At The Washington Times?
The conservative newspaper, owned by Rev. Moon, seems to be having some management issues. It looks like the new heir-apparent at the paper, Fran Coombs, has gone on a power hungry craze. This according to George Archibald, long-time reporter for the paper, writing in his blog, Unhinged.
Archibald describes Coombs’ personality this way:
We all knew he had a bad temper, drank a lot, smoked a lot of pot, but he supported his team of great reporters and we loved his feistiness and enthusiasm.
Drank a lot? Smoked a lot of pot? At The Washington Times!!?? Oh well, just goes to show you, book by its cover and so forth.
But here is the really disturbing paragraph from a larger story about how this editor insisted on framing an abortion story from India regardless of the facts:
Coombs has told me [Archibald] and others repeatedly that he favors abortion because he sees it as a way to eliminate black and other minority babies.
For some time now The Washington Times has been an influential paper on Capitol Hill - much more so than its circulation numbers would imply. It is disturbing, perhaps alarming that such a right-wing extremist (even in a newspaper culture full of conservative reporters and editors with a clear biased agenda) is at the helm.
This is not good news.