How much did the Washington Times sell for after all?
September 02, 2010 8:58 pm ET by Karl Frisch
Yep, the right-wing DC rag that never turned a profit was sold back to Rev. Sun Myung Moon -- the man who believes he is Christ returned to earth (seriously) -- for $1 after more than a year of turmoil.
So, what did right-wing internet types have to say when the Washington Post Co. sold Newsweek for the same price?
Media Research Center founder Brent Bozell issued the following statement:
There’s something entirely believable about the Newsweek sale. A left-winger pretending to be centrist sold it to another left-winger pretending to be centrist. Newsweek is a dying magazine because no one wants to read their left-wing propaganda masquerading as ‘news.’ The $1 price tag, then, is probably just about right.
I haven’t been able to find a statement from Bozell yet on the Times’ identical sale price. So, if Newsbusters managing editor Ken Shepherd -- who posted Bozell's statement with the note that Newsweek was sold to "the guy from RoboCop Sidney Harman, for a grand total of one dollar" -- has one, let's have it.
Robert Stacy McCain called Newsweek’s sale, “Jon Meacham’s $1 Legacy” but apparently hasn’t had time to write about the identical sale price of the Times.
Hotair had fun at Newsweek’s expense too. Under the headline “Good news: Newsweek sold -- for a dollar,” Allahpundit wrote:
Technically it’s a dollar plus an agreement to assume their huge financial liabilities, but if you throw me an opportunity for a headline that sweet, I’m going to take it every time.
What are Allahpundit’s thoughts on the Times’ sale price? Crickets as far as I can tell.
I could keep going but you get the picture.
Newsweek drove my household away in their apparent quest to attract an empty-headed younger audience focused on consumerism rather than hard news. The shrinking hard news hole and the expansion of fawning celebrity coverage and empty-headed consumerism were insulting. We had no interest in subscribing to Us or People!