The Pentagon Press Corps Is Gone. --- Columbia Journalism Review

[usonian]

https://www.cjr.org/news/the-pentagon-press-corps-is-gone.php

Brilliant!

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s demand that members of the Pentagon press corps sign on to restrictive reporting guidelines has prompted a mass exodus. Nearly all the journalists who had desks in the Pentagon pressroom have declined to sign, and left the building in a joint protest on Wednesday afternoon.

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A joint statement issued Tuesday by NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, and Fox News said the new policy is “without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections.”

“Today, we join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon’s new requirements, which would restrict journalists’ ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national security issues,” the networks said.

In addition to Fox, right-leaning outlets like the Washington Times and the Wall Street Journal refused to sign the pledge. Newsmax claimed that “the requirements are unnecessary and onerous.” So far, the only outlet known to have signed is One America News Network.

[wcmagumba]

1. Hegseth and trump are pitiful examples of leadership in a "formerly free" Democratic society...

[underpants]

2. Notice the writing, "news organizations" and "outlets"

[usonian]

3. They came from different sources: The joint networks, and CJR.

But I am sure that CJR checks everything.

I am just going to post a study that says over half of the content on the internet is now AI-generated.

[Buns_of_Fire]

4. Now let's see the White House Press Corps follow suit.

It's not as if his "press conferences" impart any useful information, anyway = just lies, insults, evasions, reruns of his greatest grievances, more lies, and bullshit "events" like the presentation of dead Charlie's medal. There are plenty other sources in Washington for their stories.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. MAGA, Try telling us again it's not fascism.

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