https://deadline.com/2025/10/pentagon-reporters-press-freedom-trump-1236587676/
Reporters from all major news outlets cleared out of the Pentagon on Wednesday after refusing to sign on to new Trump administration press restrictions for the complex.
Journalists, some of whom have covered the Defense Department for decades, turned in their press badges and cleared belongings out of workspaces. Per the AP, many reporters waited until 4 p.m. to depart. That was the deadline set to exit the building.
Media organizations had until Tuesday evening to decide whether to agree to a new policy that sought to limit journalists from seeking out information that had not been approved by Pentagon officials, even unclassified material.
Posted by mlg1981
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Too fascist for fox news and newsmax? Surprised they’ve got a line
We’re in the bad place.
Thank goodness.
The Pentagon will no longer have to struggle to answer a difficult question or deal with a situation where a journalist gets access to some information that is not perfectly framed as a press release.
We are expecting them to manage “global defense”(or perhaps “global war”), and they cannot be bothered to think about trivialities like “freedom of press”.
#somuchwinning
This is so effed