Despite its advertising claims that it’s a new brand of journalism, free from bias, The Epoch Times published a major unfair and one-sided assault on Utah’s new attempt to decriminalize polygamy, leaving major holes in its reporting.
“New Utah Law Makes Polygamy as Illegal as Parking in Wrong Place,” by Epoch Times congressional correspondent and noted investigative reporter Mark Tapscott, misses essential issues and a pressing need for a legal change except to raise some long-winded hypothetical religious freedom argument. It never mentions the immediate human needs and #metoo crisis, particularly for women and girls, in polygamist communities. It’s funny Tapscott quotes religious liberty observers from across the U.S., but doesn’t bother to quote the bill’s sponsor or supporters, who could have shed some light on this situation.
