The Good and Bad of News Reporting

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) (Members of the press on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 5, 2026.(Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times), ASCII, 101 components, 101 bytes)
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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.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]