OPINION_ The Good and Bad of News Reporting (Jeffrey A. Tucker - THE EPOCH TIMES)

THE EPOCH TIMES

The Good and Bad of News Reporting

Members of the press on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 5, 2026. Madalina Kilroy /The Epoch Times

Jeffrey A. Tucker
3/27/2026|Updated: 3/28/2026

Commentary

I’ve recently relaxed my old rule about not talking to reporters of mainline corporate news, if only as an experiment to test what comes out in print versus what I told them. What I’ve discovered probably won’t surprise you. If I’m quoted at all, it is in service of the thesis and spin of the article. If I said nothing to reinforce the spin, my comments are dropped entirely.

This is what I’ve found.

So one wonders, why bother? For me, it has been an education in the difference between good reporters and bad ones. A good reporter gets the story, which is usually complicated and involves a number of different perspectives. He calls up stakeholders on the matter and gets quotes that frame up the issue in service to the reader so that consumers get the whole picture.

That’s the ideal. Sadly, mainstream media has been largely taken over by editors, owners, and writers who have a single narrative to tell and sell. It doesn’t matter how many other views are out there or how many people contradict the story. They tell it anyway.

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