2025-12-04
27 分钟The Pentagon recently introduced controversial new reporting rules with restrictions that stunned journalists.
According to a 17-page memo from the Defense Department,
journalists can no longer gather or report information even
if it's unclassified without government approval.
They've also been banned from accessing entire areas of the building without an escort.
Most journalists refused to accept these new terms and termed in their press passes.
Even some conservative outlets like Newsmax won't sign this thing.
Not even Fox News is signing on.
But one outlet that did agree to the new rules is the Epoch Times.
And frankly,
that caught my attention because having been a reporter for many years and in Washington,
DC, where everybody knows everybody, the Epoch Times remains quite the mystery.
The more I looked into it, the more curious I became.
And it is a wild story that involves a renowned dance troupe,
criminal indictment, and a Chinese spiritual movement known as the Falon Gong.
Some call it a religion, but even that's disputed.
From the BBC, I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, DC.
And today on The Global Story,
how followers of this spiritual movement built a conservative media empire.
And what does its meteoric rise say about how media and politics in the U.S.