Reply #80: The media arm of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

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The garbage in, garbage out principle is alive and well ( like you haven't noticed :D )
http://www.mediachannel.org/originals/revmoon.shtml

A New Weapon In An Ideology War

In May 2000, the media arm of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church bought itself electronic fingers. News World Communications, Moon's media company, purchased United Press International (UPI), a once venerable news wire service. UPI, which provided news for media worldwide, could offer a legitimizing platform for Moon's dogma — if the new owners can revive the decrepit agency.

MediaChannel affiliates report on the sorry state of UPI (which once had 200 bureaus worldwide) and investigate Moon's growing empire. A virulently anticommunist, self-proclaimed messiah, Reverend Moon is also a prosperous businessman who can subsidize publications around the world. From The Washington Times to newspapers in Japan, Egypt and Latin America, Moon has made skillful media manipulation a key strategy in winning adherents to his vision of god and politics. As top Moon executive Bo Hi Pak declared in a 1991 documentary, "That is what the Third World War is all about — the war of ideology."
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http://www.cjr.org/

WHO OWNS WHAT
http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/newsworld.asp

News World Communications, Inc.
News World Communications is the media arm of Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church.
News World Communications, Inc.
3600 New York Ave. NE
Washington, DC 20002
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Publishing

* Washington Times
* United Press International (UPI)
* Insight Magazine
* The World and I
* Tiempos del Mundo (Latin America)
* Middle Eastern Times
* The Segye Ilbo (South Korea)
* The Sekai Nippo (Tokyo)
* Zambezi Times (South Africa)

Other

* Atlantic Video