The last time I checked, we had strict laws in this country against sending spies abroad under cover as journalists. What's with the rather blatant recruiting call, then, from The Washington Times? The company's advertising department, of all places, is looking for journalists to embark on "International Projects." Candidates must have diplomatic skills (ahem), entrepreneurial attitude, and problem solving mojo. Sounds a lot like the language old Bill Morgan used when scouring for candidates to join the fledgling OSS. My sources at certain unnamed agencies insist that the Times is not recruiting anyone on behalf of the U.S. government. I would expect that response, of course, but I am inclined to believe the denials. What, then, to make of this? Maybe the Times' overseers at News World Communications are forming their own private cadre. After all, you never know when you might want to offer new products and services.
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I knew Susan Katz, her name then, as an intrepid reporter colleague at The Washington Times, where I retired as a senior investigative reporter in September 2005 after 21 years on the Times national desk. Susan's comment was very balanced, but why is the corporate side of the Times creating this parallel reporting team. It needs some serious investigation by outside news organizations as the Times ownership is very tied in with governments and corporations in Korea, Japan, China, and elsewhere around the world. This external reporting team outside supervision of the Times newsroom could be very worrisome. Why is the editor-in-chief of The Washington Times and other editors and managers on the editorial side of the newspaper allowing this to happen? This imposition by corporate management of The Washington Times of an autonomous reporting that reports to them instead of editors on the editorial side destroys the solemn agreement struck before The Times first issue hit the streets on May 17, 1982, between the owners -- that is third floor corporate managers representing them at 3600 New York Avenue, NE in DC -- and the newsroom heart of the editorial side downstairs in the same building. The editorial autonomy was pledged on the front page of the first issue, and to my knowledge was stridently protected by each editor-in-chief, except the current one, Wesley Pruden, often flies to South Korea for meetings with owner Reverend Sun Myung Moon, and gets whispers in the ear from the upstairs president of The Washington Times Corporation -- Douglas Moon Joo when I retired, so there was slippage of the editorial autonomy guarantee during Pruden's watch.
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I always feel bad for people who work at the W. Times. (I've known a few reporters who worked there briefly.) They just want to do a good job reporting important stories, but the upper management of the W. Times is such a joke, nobody takes them seriously.
Thank you, George and Nutmeg. For those of you who remember the many scoops Archibald produced for TWT, rest assured he's still out there digging. I'm told he has a book coming out in spring. I'll be looking for it. As for the comment from Nutmeg: You are absolutely right about the first class journalists at TWT. They stand among the best anywhere.
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