Does anyone here subscribe to The Epoch Times?

February 03, 2021, 05:24 PM

I’m considering subscribing to their news site, I’m on their email list and it seems like they are writing quality articles. I’m just curious if anyone subscribes and whether a monthly subscription or just go for the yearly sub?

February 03, 2021, 05:49 PM

Ace31

I used to read High Times....LMAO

February 03, 2021, 05:50 PM

Ripley

A friend has recently sent me worthwhile links from there, I haven't had time to really look into it.

February 03, 2021, 05:59 PM

FishOn

If you look up who runs the Epoch Times it's pretty interesting. Chinese Americans that support the Falun Gong movement. Very much anti-commie.

"By 2003, The Epoch Times website and group of newspapers had grown into one of the largest Chinese-language news sites and newspaper groups outside China, with local editions in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and major Western European countries"

quoted from Wikipedia.

February 03, 2021, 06:23 PM

nhtagmember

I bought a one year subscription and I get daily emails.

In my opinion it’s very good writing.

February 03, 2021, 06:30 PM

Rey HRH

I've been reading them and follow their youtube channel. Have not subscribed.

I don't know if it matters to you but Epoch Times is an arm of the Falun Gong (a religious sect currently being persecuted in China). Shen Yun, a group that tours US pre-Covid to give entertainment chinese acrobatic shows is also affiliated with Falun Gong.

I like them. I figure the enemy of my enemy is my friend at the present.

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.

February 03, 2021, 07:44 PM

Tonydec

They have been sending me a free test subscription. Think of it like a Fox News minus the theatrics. I was surprised to learn about the China connection. I interpret it (The Epoch Times) as a warning about the current direction our politics appear to be taking and where it can lead us.

February 03, 2021, 10:57 PM

drill sgt

Received a couple copies in my home mailbox in the last six months or so ago. No subscription . Interesting reading. Did not know about the connection with the enemy. .......................................... drill sgt.

February 04, 2021, 12:02 AM

sjtill

We subscribe, my wife reads the printed paper more than I do.
They have actual journalists--reporters--in addition to pundits, so that's a breath of fresh air.
And some of the columnists, like Roger Simon, I've read and appreciated for years before they moved to the Epoch Times.

February 04, 2021, 01:06 AM

kkina

Falun Gong is a spiritual movement that centers its practice around meditative breathing exercises ("chi gong") designed to cultivate chi (or qi), the fundamental life force. It has no political agenda per se. It is being persecuted by the ChiCom government because every overthrow of central authority in Chinese history was presaged by the rise of a religious group.

February 04, 2021, 07:41 AM

Jimbo Jones

Same....

quote:
Originally posted by nhtagmember:
I bought a one year subscription and I get daily emails.

In my opinion it’s very good writing.

February 04, 2021, 07:54 AM

mcrimm

Just took their 3 months for a $1 offer.

February 04, 2021, 08:02 AM

Flash-LB

Mrs. Flash is subscribed to it for now. I read it also. It's definitely not CNN.

February 04, 2021, 08:39 AM

wbw

We just received our first issue. We like it so far.

February 04, 2021, 06:17 PM

Largefarva

Thanks for the input, guys. I’ll be sending them some support later tonight with a subscription. I really do like the articles that I’ve read so far. Very well written and I also appreciate that they don’t try to force you into paying to read their content....sure there’s the pop-up when you open an article but it always has the option to choose “maybe next time”.

February 04, 2021, 06:58 PM

OKCGene

I have not yet subscribed but a paper copy appears in my mailbox about once a week or so.

I did not solicit it, but I do welcome it in my mailbox.

February 04, 2021, 07:37 PM

nearmiss75

I have the $5/month plan and can cancel anytime. I only read it on the internet and frankly enjoy the long form journalism and perspective. The US news is very good and the foreign news is always interesting. The have been recently demonetized by YouTube (I think) so you know its gotta be good. Try it for a while, it is better than most out there in the Matrix.

February 10, 2021, 03:33 PM

Ripley

Canada Post Office Employees Refuse to Deliver Copies of the Epoch Times Newspaper

In a recent chapter of our cancel culture, two Canadian post office workers refused to deliver copies of the Epoch Times Newspaper. Mr. Ramiro Sepulveda, one of the two, “protected” the Canadian public in this way from what he regarded as intellectual filth. In his view, “I saw this thing, I read it and thought it was trash…” He further averred that the Epoch Times Newspaper was “damaging” and “I saw the headlines and I thought, wow, that’s ridiculous…”

But the intellectual virus goes far deeper than this one censor. These workers were not at all condemned by their union representatives. According to William Johnson, president of the Regina Canadian Union of Postal Workers local, Canada Post should be more careful about what material it transfers from sender to recipient.

“I think as a Crown corporation they do have a moral responsibility to actually look at this stuff and determine if it is peddling in hate and racism and those sorts of things,” in his view. (A Canadian Crown corporation would be somewhat similar to a public utility in the U.S.: highly regulated, by the government, but only quasi-independent of it.)

Union leaders have promised to stand by contract-violating members such as Sepulveda. In Johnson’s view, “The publication affects a bunch of our letter carriers. This is not a publication that we as a Crown corporation should be giving out to Canadians.” ...