Reply #87: UPI will tell us what to think

[Cell Whitman]

UPI is now a "pretend" wire service.

They'll still do some good reporting. Moon's higher ups are very educated determined people. Some people foolishly think of moonies as glazed over kids selling flowers. This organization is no joke, yet no one wants to discuss what is happening, they have bought into many lies. imho.

I am sure UPI still has some independent folks. The Moon org will gradually make it what it wants. Like the Washington Times, he doesn't have to come into the office and tell them what to do he has hired Wes Pruden, nuff said. I am not saying he wasn't directly involved with making the paper, though.

here is some of that: The "Independent" Washington Times
http://cellwhitman.blogspot.com/2004/10/independent-washington-times.html

But, UPI will select stories and add the reporters the Moon higher ups want. Slip in a few moonites as you go along. Moon said a few years ago he didn't want his media telling people just facts, he wanted it to tell people what it all means. So UPI is developing an arm for that... It will be what is reported I would imagine, the stories they pick. Moon is defining the parameters of thinking more and more.

Also, it's the 'credibility' UPI gives Moon's other endeavors.

Here is an example of that. You have Micheal Marshall, who was the 'pastor' at Moon's DC 'church' and is now a big wig with UPI. He's the host and interviewer in what are basically moonie propaganda shows.
http://www.iifwp.org/publications/vopeace/

here Gorenfeld has a thing on Marshall's "oath" to Moon.
http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog/2003/11/new-upi-editors-journalism-oath-to-rev.html

Everything Moon does, everything he touches, every member's lives are centered on Moon and his organization being put in charge of the direction of world events.

Which in many ways he already is.

Oh and one more thing. Don't be surprised when Moon's media is critical of Bush or our nation now. Moon doesn't give a damb about Bush or conservatives or anything but Moon. He has as much to do with our nation having the government it has now as anyone. Anyone. I wouldn't be surprised to see his media attack what he created. Moon wants Korea to be the center of the world and he isn't what I would call a balanced character.

Reported both by U.S. News & World Report and in Robert Parry's “Dark Side of Rev. Moon,”

From Parry: By the mid-1980s, Moon’s Unification Church had carved out a niche as an acceptable part of the American right. In one speech to his followers, Moon boasted that “without knowing it, even President Reagan is being guided by Father (Moon).”Yet, Moon also made clear that his longer-range goal was the destruction of the U.S. Constitution and America’s democratic form of government. “History will make the position of Reverend Moon clear, and his enemies, the American population and government will bow down to him.” Moon said, speaking of himself in the third person. “That is Father’s tactic, the natural subjugation of the American government and population.”
http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon3.html

Moon is getting the last laugh.