Sun Myung Moon

===''The Washington Times''===
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In 1982, ''[[The Washington Times]]'' was founded by [[News World Communications]], an international media conglomerate associated with Moon, which also owned newspapers in [[South Korea]], [[Japan]], and [[South America]], as well as the [[news agency]] [[United Press International]].<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/18/us/around-the-nation-sun-myung-moon-paper-appears-in-washington.html | title = Sun Myung Moon Paper Appears in Washington | work = [[The New York Times]] | date = 18 May 1982}}</ref> The political views of ''The Washington Times'' have often been described as [[conservative]].<ref name="Hall">{{cite news| last =Hall| first =Mimi| title =Bush, aides boost access of conservative media| work =USA Today| date =22 March 2001| url =https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2001-03-22-media.htm#more| access-date =25 July 2009 }}</ref><ref name="Glaberson">{{cite news| last =Glaberson| first =William| title =The Media Business; Conservative Daily Tries to Expand National Niche| work=[[The New York Times]]| date =27 June 1994| url =https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/27/business/the-media-business-conservative-daily-tries-to-expand-national-niche.html| access-date =25 July 2009 }}</ref><ref name="ojr.org">[http://www.ojr.org/ojr/people/nikkiusher/200812/1604/ New business models for news are not that new], Nikki Usher, Knight Digital Media Center, 2008-12-17, "And the Washington Times' conservative stance pursues its agenda from the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church."</ref> The ''Times'' was read by many Washington, DC insiders, including [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref name=nyt1994>[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/27/business/the-media-business-conservative-daily-tries-to-expand-national-niche.html?pagewanted=all Conservative Daily Tries to Expand National Niche], [[New York Times]], 27 June 1994.  That kind of political access has given The Times, after nearly a decade of publication, its own genuine, if limited, place in the capital's rich media mix.  "It's the other half of the political picture, and without it I found I would be missing a lot of what was going on in conservative thinking," said Stephen G. Smith, news editor of the Knight-Ridder Newspapers bureau here. "While its circulation is small, its influence is out-sized."   But ''The Washington Times'' has always been and remains a very expensive and unsuccessful business, losing an estimated $35 million a year.  Part of The Times's problem is being the city's second-ranked daily newspaper during a deep advertising recession. The market is dominated in circulation and advertising by The Times's more liberal archrival, The Washington Post.  Almost since it was started in 1982, The Times has seen its average weekday circulation hover at about 100,000, compared with nearly 800,000 for The Post. And The Times estimates that about two-thirds of its subscribers also take The Post.</ref><ref>{{cite news| title =As the Rev. Moon goes, so goes the Washington Times?| newspaper =The Washington Post| date =2 September 2012| url =https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/as-the-rev-moon-goes-so-goes-the-washington-times/2012/09/02/a150051e-f535-11e1-86a5-1f5431d87dfd_blog.html| access-date =14 November 2012| first=Erik| last=Wemple}} ''The Washington Times'', it notes, took in $1 billion in subsidies over its first decade and was a favorite read for President Ronald Reagan.</ref> By 2002, Moon had invested roughly $1.7 billion to support the ''Times'',<ref>Ahrens, Frank, "Moon Speech Raises Old Ghosts as the Times Turns 20", Washington ''Post'', 23 May 2002. "As of this year, Moon and his businesses have plowed about $1.7 billion into subsidizing the Times, say current and former employees."</ref> which he called "the instrument in spreading the truth about God to the world".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.cjr.org/issues/2002/5/wash-chinni.asp |title=The Other Paper: The Washington Times's role |first=Dante |last=Chinni |year=2002 |magazine=Columbia Journalism Review |access-date=29 April 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060419012416/https://www.cjr.org/issues/2002/5/wash-chinni.asp |archive-date=19 April 2006}}</ref>