Rev. Sun Myung Moon—the self-proclaimed messiah and Washington Times founder—reportedly had a secret love child, whom he made his publisher raise.

The Unification Church founder who earned international notoriety for conducting mass weddings died Monday at a hospital in South Korea following a bout with pneumonia.

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Staffers at the Washington Times just don’t get a break, do they? Apart being regularly lambasted for working for a money-bleeding newspaper owned by the odd Rev. Sun Myung Moon, now they’re getting a in-depth look into the struggle for the paper’s leadership. This week The Nation features as its cover story a 4,200-word expose on the battle between current Editor-in-Chief Wesley Pruden and Preston Moon, the reverend’s son. According to the piece, Pruden, now…

While the Post may have corned the market for mainstream media blogs, the Washington Times isn’t far behind. Well, actually, they’re really far behind. But that doesn’t mean that they’re not trying. Courtesy of our friends at Wonkette and Fishbowl D.C., today we discover the Washington Times’ newest blog. Joining their current roster of blogs — three to date — the newest blog is titled “Washington Intern,” and just like its name hints, is produced…

Fishbowl D.C. draws our attention today to MediaWeek’s annual look at the local media outlets, which came out on Monday. There are plenty of interesting notes in MediaWeek’s coverage, but the one that caught our eye (because Fishbowl D.C. pointed it out to us) relates to the circulation of a local sushi mogul’s pet paper. Despite swallowing over $2 billion worth of cash infusions from the Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church, the Washington…

If you’re a fan of sushi, it may come as a bit of a surprise to know that your eating habits may directly be propping up the Washington Times and the rest of Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s quirky religious empire. A reader recently tipped us off to an article in the Chicago Tribune outlining how Moon — a self-proclaimed messiah and leader of the Unification Church — has all but cornered the sushi market, using…

Making fun of the Washington Times has always been like shooting fish in a barrel, but Patrick Gavin at Fishbowl DC notes that soon we may not have the Times to kick around anymore, or train our house pets on. Founded by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon in 1982, the paper has long bled money, losing perhaps over $2 billion during its publishing run while being kept alive by cash infusions from Moon’s Unification Church….

Perhaps we were blinded by all of the orange we saw at the Gates in New York’s Central Park this past weekend, but we think the City Paper has adopted the marketing tactics of Yellow Cab and The Washington Times. Has the City Paper gotten new distribution bins? We think so. The bins are black with an orange window frame. So we guess orange is in. Everywhere it seems. Despite its name, Yellow Cab of…

From DCist contributor Catherine Andrews: Hopelessly cynical hipster kids can get a dose of feel-good, irony-free music tonight with the Polyphonic Spree concert, going on at the 9:30 Club (815 V St. NW). Twenty-five bandmates, dressed in technicolor floor-length robes, indoctrinate audience members into their wonderful world of musical puppies and rainbows. The Texas-based group, building on the success of their first album, “The Beginning Stages of …”, has found some critical success with…