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EDITOR'S COMMENT:

The Reverend Sun Myung Moon just doesn't seem to go away. Over the years we
have reported on many of Moon's far-reaching, sneaky, often brazenly
self-promoting activities. The following comments concern the NEWS WORLD
COMMUNICATIONS, INC. (which is owned by Moon) acquisition of UNITED PRESS
INTERNATIONAL (U.P.I.).

The first story, from REUTERS, reports on the recent acquisition.

The second article, from Steven Hassan, the founder of FREEDOM OF MIND and
one of the world's foremost experts on cult organizations, shares his
thoughts on the acquisition.

And the third article is written by the Editor of THE WASHINGTON TIMES
(another news organization that is owned by Moon) in response to a news
story THE WASHINGTON POST ran concerning the U.P.I. acquisition. In this
article, Times editor, Wesley Pruden, claims that Moon does not exert any
editorial control over the Times. He also expresses bewilderment as to why
the Post would make such a claim. As Hassan correctly points out, at least
part of the reason the Post wonders just how independent the Times is can be
traced back to former editors and reporters who claimed Moon was heavily
involved in editorial decisions of the newspaper (see the "More About Sun
Myung Moon" link at the end of this post for more information).

--- David Sunfellow

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UNIFICATION CHURCH ARM ACQUIRES UPI
Monday May 15 4:58 PM ET

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000515/bs/media_upi_1.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Unification Church affiliate that owns the
Washington Times newspaper has acquired United Press International wire
service which broke the news of President John Kennedy's assassination but
has since fallen on hard times, the agency said on Monday.

UPI said in an article on Monday that News World Communications, established
by Unification Church head Rev. Sun Myung Moon, "plans to maintain UPI as an
independent news-gathering operation, while upgrading its capacity with new
technologies and distribution practices."

Since it was established by Moon in 1982, the Washington Times has provided
a consistently conservative editorial voice in the nation's capital. Moon
also lists on his Internet site newspapers in Seoul, Tokyo, Montevideo,
Athens, Los Angeles and New York.

UPI reached its peak in the late 1950s when it had some 5,000 newspaper and
broadcast clients. Over the next several decades the client base shrank. UPI
recently sold its once-powerful broadcast division to its long-time rival,
the Associated Press.

In recent years UPI has been most famous for its chief White House reporter,
Helen Thomas, the dean of presidential journalists who has covered every
president since Kennedy.

"Unipressers" in their heyday were some of the best known bylines in
American journalism. The wire service's alumni included Walter Cronkite,
Howard K. Smith, David Brinkley, Eric Sevareid and Harrison Salisbury.

UPI scored numerous coups in journalism, perhaps most notably its beat over
AP of the Nov. 22, 1963 assassination of Kennedy.

Veteran UPI White House correspondent Merriman Smith seized the only phone
on the press car in the presidential motorcade and refused to relinquish it
to his AP counterpart, Jack Bell.

The first word of the assassination to the rest of the world was Smith's and
he went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting.

But there were gaffes as well, such as an April 28, 1986 report that 2,000
people had been killed in the Chernobyl nuclear accident and a "beat" on the
signing of the Armistice ending World War I that moved four days before the
ink went on the paper on Nov. 11, 1918.

United Press was launched on June 21, 1907, by newspaper magnate Edward
Wyllis Scripps in part because he wanted a news agency to serve his
afternoon dailies that the morning-paper oriented AP would not serve.

Thus began a long competitive rivalry with the larger, richer AP that often
was one of the most intense of American journalism.

In May 1958 United Press merged with the third major U.S. wire service,
William Randolph Hearst's International News Service. Known as United Press
International and now armed with many of of INS' well-known correspondents
around the world, UPI set out to challenge the AP.

But it started losing money within four years and never stopped. Battered by
the rise of television news and the shrinking number of afternoon newspapers
-- the backbone of the wire service's news report -- UPI shrank in size and
kept losing money.

Still there were days of glory left. UPI won six more Pulitzer Prizes in
reporting and photography in addition to Smith's and called the 1976
presidential election of Jimmy Carter before any other news organization.

After trying for years to unload UPI to a reputable news organization, UPI's
owner, the Scripps Howard newspaper chain paid two inexperienced Nashville,
Tennessee, entrepreneurs, Doug Ruhe and Bill Geisler, $5 million to take it
in 1982.

The two presided over a news agency that hemorrhaged money, lost clients and
sold off assets -- including its overseas news pictures operation to Reuters
-- and eventually had to file for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11.

Over the next decade UPI changed hands three times -- first being sold to
Mexican publisher Mario Vazquez-Rana, then to California venture capitalist
Earl Brian.

UPI has been owned by a group of Saudi Arabian businessmen since 1992.

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THE MOONIES BUY U.P.I. (United Press International)
By Steven Hassan
May 16, 2000
http://www.freedomofmind.com/

As a former leader of Moon's American branch of his empire, I am saddened to
learn that the venerable news service UPI has been swallowed up by the cult
that believes that democracy is Satanic. Moon thinks he is the Messiah (ten
times greater that Jesus, Moses, Buddha or any leader in history) and that
he is the True Parent of all mankind. He preaches that "God wants an
automatic theocracy" with Moon as his sole representative on Earth.

As a true believer in the nineteen seventies, I meditated on Moon aphorisms
called "The Way of God's Will." One of these sayings is "Evil has deceived
evil into goodness, but goodness has not been able to deceive evil into
goodness. This must be the reason that Christianity couldn't accomplish
God's Will bravely, until today." To translate, what he is saying is that
because Satan deceived Adam and Eve into betraying God's commandment in the
Garden of Eden, therefore Moon (who is perfected Adam) must use deception to
trick Satan's children (us) into following God's Will.

Nowhere is Moon's lies more graphically demonstrable than reading the final
report of the 1977-78 congressional investigation into Korean CIA activities
in the United States. A copy of the final report's 80 pages on the Moonies
are on my web site at:

http://www.freedomofmind.com/groups/moonies/fraserport.htm

Colonel Bo Hi Pak, Moon's right hand man and former KCIA/CIA liaison person
wrote a book and made a videotape called 'The Truth is My Sword." In these,
Pak espoused lies regarding the official government investigation. He said
the investigation found no evidence of KCIA activity with the Moon group (it
did), no evidence of an M-16 gun factory (there was and is), and even went
so far as to accuse congressman Donald Fraser of being a KGB agent
(nonsense!).

What is wrong with a convicted felon who wants to take over the world owning
and operating major media outlets? Buying UPI gets a seat with the President
of the United States aboard Air Force One. Buying UPI gets editorial control
over what stories get written and how. Anyone who believes that the Moonies
have never exerted editorial influence over the Washington Times should
speak with James Whelan, founding editor of the paper. He quit along with
the editorial page editor years ago because they said they had no editorial
independence.

Moon has reportedly spent over one billion dollars to operate The Washington
Times in D.C. since first acquiring it. The newspaper loses millions of
dollars each month, but apparently buys lots of legitimacy and clout. U.S.
Presidents Reagan and Bush repeatedly endorsed the Washington Times. Later,
George Bush received a reported two million dollars to do speaking
engagements for Moon owned entities throughout the world.

If you don't believe that Moon has firmly established his entities in the
world media, ask yourself the following question? Why there was virtually no
news coverage when Moon's 21 year old son, Phillip Moon committed suicide by
jumping out of a 17 floor hotel window last October in Reno, Nevada? Ask
yourself why there are so few stories written about Unificationists as a
destructive mind control cult anymore? Have they changed? I think not.

Moon wants influence and control. Read his private speeches called "Master
Speaks." Moon is buying UPI because he believes he is sinless and chosen to
rule the world and this entity will help him to control information.
According to his bible, The Divine Principle, when Moon takes over the
world, there will only be one language spoken -- Korean. I say
congratulations to veteran reporter Helen Thomas for resigning from UPI. She
shows integrity and class. I offer the following warning by Edmund Burke,
"All it takes is for evil to triumph is for enough good men (people) to do
nothing."

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EDITORIAL: Response to a lie
May 17, 2000
The Washington Times

http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/ed-house-2000517194850.htm

The following is an excerpt from the May 16, 2000, edition of The Washington
Post:

"Nearly bankrupt and with only a skeletal staff, once-venerated United Press
International found a financial savior yesterday in News World
Communications, Inc., owner of The Washington Times, which purchased the
wire service's assets for an undisclosed amount....

"The wire service's new owner is controlled by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon,
founder of the Unification Church and the conservative voice behind the
Times's editorials..."
     
Wesley Pruden, the editor in chief of The Times, yesterday dispatched this
response to The Washington Post:

Dear Editor:

I was astonished to read in The Post, in a story about the sale of United
Press International to News World Communications, Inc., that UPI's new owner
"is controlled by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church
and the conservative voice behind the Times's editorials."

Someone may be hearing voices, but it is not anyone here at The Times.
Neither Rev. Moon nor the Unification Church control, contribute or
influence in any way any editorial, or any news dispatch, in The Times. As
the editor-in-chief of The Times (since 1992), I have sole responsibility
and authority for every word that goes into the newspaper, guaranteed by my
contract, which the owners have never tried to breach in any way.

Neither I nor Helle Bering, the editor of our editorial page, has ever
received one word of instruction or remonstration about any editorial or any
topic for an editorial. This baseless accusation by your reporter Yuki
Noguchi, who did not inquire of Rev. Moon or of anyone here at The Times as
to how our editorial opinion is arrived at, is an appalling affront to the
integrity of the men and women who write and edit our editorials. I cannot
imagine why The Post printed such a lie.

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From "More About Sun Myung Moon" (in Smorgasbord 4, 12/5/1997):    
http://www.nhne.com/smorgasbord/smorgasbord0004.html

"Claims that Moon has nothing to do with the day-to-day operation and policy
of these organizations was directly challenged by those who worked with him.
Former WASHINGTON TIMES editors went on record as saying that in spite of
claims to the contrary, Moon himself often gave direct orders to newspaper
editors concerning what to stories to cover -- as well as how to cover
them."

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OTHER LINKS CONCERNING SUN MYUNG MOON:

Moon's Son's Death Ruled A Suicide:
http://www.egroups.com/message/nhnenews/124?&start=4

Recruits Saught for Moon's Next Mass Wedding:
http://www.egroups.com/message/nhnenews/42?&start=4

Suspicion Follows Rev. Moon to South America:
http://www.egroups.com/message/nhnenews/4?

Freedom of Mind Section on Sun Myung Moon:
http://www.freedomofmind.com/groups/moonies/moonies.htm

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David Sunfellow
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