UPI is a hollow shell of what it used to be, see their wiki entry. Late at night on their wires you can see unadulterated Hezbollah and Hamas agitprop on their feed before the day crew gets in and cleans the garbage out. In the end who cares what the Moonies say?

UPI was purchased in 2000 by Sun Myung Moon’s global media conglomerate News World Communications, becoming an addition to the Unification Church media portfolio. At the time Moon said:

“We even have to utilize the media for the sake of church development. The church is the mind and the media is the body, to reach the external world. We should begin that movement and activity in the United States, because the Washington Times and UPI are headquartered there. Once we establish our organization in the United States, it can be expanded to the world without much alteration.”[2][3]
After 57 years with UPI, its best-known reporter Helen Thomas resigned her position as UPI’s chief White House correspondent in May 2000, the day after it was acquired by News World. [4] Since the resignation of Thomas, UPI for the first time does not have a reporter in the White House press corps.[5]

In 2004, UPI won the Clapper Award from the Senate Press Gallery and the Fourth Estate Award for its investigative reporting on the dilapidated hospitals awaiting wounded U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq.

By 2007, UPI, which once had 6000 employees in 223 news and picture bureaus around the world, thousands of nonstaff “stringers,” and 7,500 customers in 100 countries, had fewer than 50 employees. In August 2007, the company reduced that number further, and currently has only five reporters in its Washington D. C. headquarters. Several dozen stringers still file regular reports from key regions of the world. More than a dozen editors are stationed in various cities in the United States and elsewhere.