Wave of Hit Pieces Reveals Why Establishment Is Terrified of This Defiant Newspaper
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Not that long ago, it was safe for the press to say a few good things about The Epoch Times.
In 2010, for example, Politico presented the publication as a quirky fixture of life in New York City.
Their article ended with a convenience store owner who carried the paper comparing it to the New York Times—a living symbol of America’s liberal establishment, the periodical that Washington insider McGeorge Bundy supposedly described as the city’s “interoffice memo system.”
But attitudes changed with the rise of Donald J. Trump.
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In short, the media declared war on President Trump.
But The Epoch Times continued to strive for objectivity in its news reporting. That meant treating President Trump fairly, like any other president, and not like Public Enemy Number One.
Readers seeking truth and tradition flocked to the publication.
All of a sudden, the anti-communist newspaper founded by Chinese dissidents didn’t seem so cute and harmless anymore. Media outlets that treated their establishment counterparts as gentlemanly rivals lined up to take aim at a fast-rising competitor, in some cases just before the 2020 presidential election.
Slowly and then all at once, the hit pieces against The Epoch Times came in—from NBC News, the Times, the Atlantic, and more.
Yet, their attacks may have revealed more than they bargained for. Each one had to acknowledge The Epoch Times’ growing importance.
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Another legacy media broadside came more than two years later, again from NBC News.
Brandy Zadrozny’s October 2023 article characterized The Epoch Times as “one of the country’s most successful and influential conservative news organizations.”
Its headline conceded that the paper had gone “mainstream.”
“The media organization,” Ms. Zadrozny wrote, “is expanding.” She cited its new office in Southern California, which the organization had written about the previous month.