Now that editors Wes Pruden and Frances Coombs have stepped aside, some kids inside the Washington Times newsroom are speculatiing that former editorial page editor Tony Blankley may be interested in rejoining the team. He joined a public relations firm in September, some say, because he was unhappy with the leadership of Pruden and Coombs. With John Solomon now in charge, he may want to stage a comeback.

Earlier: Live! Nude! Conservative DC Writers!

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John Solomon has been appointed executive editor of The Washington Times to succeed Wesley Pruden, who is retiring after 25 years in the newsroom. In recent years, Soloman has strengthened The Washington Post, where he has helped lead its national investigative and political reporting.

Frances Coombs, Pruden’s longtime number two, has said that he will be resigning, so that Solomon can pick his own staff.

The move by many media insiders as seen as an attempt to tone down the sharp editorial and controversially conservative edges the paper has become infamous for displaying.

Earlier: Shakeup @ Wash Times?

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OK, so we all know that FishbowlDC editor Patrick Gavin is totally lax in the giving credit department, but now we’ve learned that he totally sucks at checking the authenticity of a photo. Recently, you see, the Washington Times’ Kelly Jane Torrance asked him to post this pic of her during his annual media hotties contest:

We, of course, proceeded to talk about the oddness of the pic in this post. But now, new evidence has come to Big Head DC’s attention, indicating that the original Torrance pic was a hoax! The woman in the below pics, who we’ve been told is the actual Torrance, looks quite a bit different: Read more…

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Most people know that the media-arm of Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church own the Washington Times — and questions of his tolerance of homosexuals in that newsroom has long been questioned. But, as a keen Big Head DC reader points out, United Press International, too, has ties to Moon, who has called for the destruction of LGBT people. In a speech in 1997 he said: “What is the meaning of lesbians and homosexuals? That is the place where all different kinds of dung collect. We have to end that behavior. When this kind of dirty relationship is taking place between human beings, God cannot be happy.” Wonder what the gays in UPI’s newsroom, which tends to pride itself on tolerance (much moreso than the Washington Times), think about that?

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