Pentagon boots CNN and the Washington Post from workspace in favor of smaller conservative outlets

[League Champion 1,926]

The Washington Post, CNN, The Hill and The War Zone will lose workspace at the Pentagon this year under an expanded “media rotation program” instituted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s press office.

The rotation makes room for a number of right-wing and explicitly pro-Trump media outlets that have not had workspace at the Pentagon before.

The Friday night announcement was criticized by some journalists as a way to score political points and penalize tough-minded news outlets.

The changes only affect workspaces, not credentials, so journalists from the affected outlets will not lose access to military officials and press briefings.

CNN said in a statement that “CNN’s mission to report on the Department of Defense, US military and Trump Administration will continue regardless of office arrangements. We will not be deflected from our duty to hold all three fairly and fully to account.”

When it was first announced a week ago, the rotation program called for four outlets to give up their space this year.

Effective later this month, One America News Network will replace NBC News for the remainder of the year; Breitbart will replace National Public Radio; The New York Post will replace The New York Times; and HuffPost will replace Politico.

HuffPost has a progressive bent, but the other three beneficiaries are all Trump-boosting brands that are notably smaller than the outlets they are replacing.

The workspaces are provided by the Pentagon, so media outlets have little recourse, particularly because credentials are not being revoked. Still, having a “steady presence inside the building” carries many advantages, former CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr wrote in an essay for Columbia Journalism Review. It means “that the reporters who cover the Pentagon can be in touch with trusted sources throughout the day and be ready to quickly file news stories. It’s a very valuable relationship, most importantly for an informed public.”

Representatives of several newsrooms met with Pentagon officials earlier this week and expressed concerns over the rotation program.

One concern entailed the “strategic disadvantage” of losing office space in the building.

[Tebok 443]

Nipping free speech and freedom of the media in the bud one step at a time.

Looking more like early 1930s Germany by the day.

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,340]

Didn't' we have a previous thread for this?

[Mike Honcho 5,546]

Did the pentagon give them new offices on the moon?

[5-Points 3,839]

Why would anyone have a problem with this? They're rotating media outlets in/out, giving new media outlets the same access outlets like CNN have had forever. It's called freedom of the press and this administration is spreading the wealth. 

 

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,340]

4 minutes ago, 5-Points said:

Why would anyone have a problem with this? They're rotating media outlets in/out, giving new media outlets the same access outlets like CNN have had forever. It's called freedom of the press and this administration is spreading the wealth. 

 

If DJT came out tomorrow and agreed that the Earth was round, the left would deny and oppose that too.

[HB Localboy 122]

WINNING!!!!  

 

Fake News is going the way of the Dodo Bird.

 

CNN Finished! 

MSNBC Finito! 

NPR Kaputt! 

MSM Adios!  

[jonmx 2,484]

10 hours ago, Tebok said:

Nipping free speech and freedom of the media in the bud one step at a time.

Looking more like early 1930s Germany by the day.

Lol....you think CNN represents the free press???  They are all just a bunch of CIA whoars putting out propaganda for the deep state.   

We now have an independant media which is not on the puppet strings cheerleading for the deep states latest war and the next massive fraudulant government agency which will strip us of our rights and put us in the bondage of unmanaged exponentially growing debt. 

[Rabbit Range 51]

12 minutes ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

If DJT came out tomorrow and agreed that the Earth was round, the left would deny and oppose that too.

If Trump came out tomorrow and said the earth was flat, MAGA would suddenly embrace the idea. That would seem a lot more accurate of the two.

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,340]

36 minutes ago, Rabbit Range said:

If Trump came out tomorrow and said the earth was flat, MAGA would suddenly embrace the idea. That would seem a lot more accurate of the two.

Negative, rusty.  Nice try, though.  I give you a D- for effort.  It was below average, like you. 

[Tebok 443]

1 hour ago, jonmx said:

Lol....you think CNN represents the free press???  They are all just a bunch of CIA whoars putting out propaganda for the deep state.   

We now have an independant media which is not on the puppet strings cheerleading for the deep states latest war and the next massive fraudulant government agency which will strip us of our rights and put us in the bondage of unmanaged exponentially growing debt. 

So free media = mouthpieces for the administration.

Got it!

[Strike 6,032]

1 hour ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Didn't' we have a previous thread for this?

To be clear, I started a thread similar to this about a week ago.  But this development is that they have booted four MORE MSM groups out of the Pentagon, so now there will eight alternative news sources based there.

[squistion 2,661]

People kept telling us before the election that it was Democrats, liberals and the left who were against free speech and freedom of the press.

Guess not.

[League Champion 1,926]

2 minutes ago, squistion said:

People kept telling us before the election that it was Democrats, liberals and the left who were against free speech and freedom of the press.

Guess not.

Fake News, no more

[Strike 6,032]

3 minutes ago, squistion said:

People kept telling us before the election that it was Democrats, liberals and the left who were against free speech and freedom of the press.

Guess not.

Nothing in this move prevents free speech.  Unfortunately, there are only so many spots on media row at the Pentagon.  This is simply being fair to ALL outlets instead of favoring some.

[League Champion 1,926]

Just now, Strike said:

Nothing in this move prevents free speech.  Unfortunately, there are only so many spots on media row at the Pentagon.  This is simply being fair to ALL outlets instead of favoring some.

@squistion is a drama Queen 

[jonmx 2,484]

31 minutes ago, Tebok said:

So free media = mouthpieces for the administration.

Got it!

No, they have voices from all points of view.   Just kicked the old establishment pro-government anti-freedom elitist bastard press corp to the back where they belong.   They really belong on the ash heap of history.  Fuk they were terrible.  Amazing there are still 28 percent of fuking retards who believe in their pile of crap.  Sorry if i offended you retards with the truth.  

[Strike 6,032]

5 minutes ago, League Champion said:

@squistion is a drama Queen 

Oh, I know.  And he'll never see my post because apparently calling him a Pigeon Focker, despite the fact that he does in fact fock pigeons, is enough to get one on his "ignore" list.  But calling out his and @The Real timschochet's stupidity on occasion ensures reasonable people see how idiotic they both are.

[Tebok 443]

5 minutes ago, jonmx said:

No, they have voices from all points of view.   Just kicked the old establishment pro-government anti-freedom elitist bastard press corp to the back where they belong.   They really belong on the ash heap of history.  Fuk they were terrible.  Amazing there are still 28 percent of fuking retards who believe in their pile of crap.  Sorry if i offended you retards with the truth.  

You sound pretty fanatical. Do you act like around the house?

 

[Engorgeous George 2,332]

4 minutes ago, Strike said:

Oh, I know.  And he'll never see my post because apparently calling him a Pigeon Focker, despite the fact that he does in fact fock pigeons, is enough to get one on his "ignore" list.  But calling out his and @The Real timschochet's stupidity on occasion ensures reasonable people see how idiotic they both are.

How does he distinguish the male pigeons from the females, or is that distinction lost on him?  Is he an any pigeon will do sort of fellow?

[Strike 6,032]

Just now, Engorgeous George said:

How does he distinguish the male pigeons from the females, or is that distinction lost on him?  Is he an any pigeon will do sort of fellow?

If you're not on his ignore list maybe he'll answer these burning questions.  I do not have personal knowledge of his pigeon focking standards.

[Engorgeous George 2,332]

1 minute ago, Strike said:

If you're not on his ignore list maybe he'll answer these burning questions.  I do not have personal knowledge of his pigeon focking standards.

Both are on my ignore list.

[Tebok 443]

Musk was all about "transparency," and then we have this reckless ransacking of federal departments and clamping down communication out of health organizations while a potential bird-flu epidemic is brewing. 

Tuck Frump.

[CaptainObvious1 368]

35 minutes ago, squistion said:

People kept telling us before the election that it was Democrats, liberals and the left who were against free speech and freedom of the press.

Guess not.

What free speech was taken away by switching outlets?  Stop trolling.

[5-Points 3,839]

2 hours ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

If DJT came out tomorrow and agreed that the Earth was round, the left would deny and oppose that too.

They're mental. 

[5-Points 3,839]

38 minutes ago, Strike said:

Nothing in this move prevents free speech.  Unfortunately, there are only so many spots on media row at the Pentagon.  This is simply being fair to ALL outlets instead of favoring some.

This is an unacceptable attack on democracy and free speech. Allowing multiple news outlets into the pentagon is the exact thing a dictator would do. 

[squistion 2,661]

52 minutes ago, Tebok said:

You sound pretty fanatical. Do you act like around the house?

One would hope not.

It is hard to imagine that he constantly rants and raves like this around family, friends, neighbors and co-workers...but maybe he does.

[Tree of Knowledge 2,256]

1 hour ago, CaptainObvious1 said:

What free speech was taken away by switching outlets?  Stop trolling.

They only want USAID approved media.  

[jonmx 2,484]

2 hours ago, Tebok said:

You sound pretty fanatical. Do you act like around the house?

 

You sound like a good bootlicker.   Do you not see that the political Washington establishment has been taking this country into the toilet for the last 60 years.   They robbed us blind, got us into useless wars, made the world hate us, try to rule the world by assassinating world leaders and putting in puppets, took over the messaging in the media and later Big Tech, got in bed with big Pharma and big Banks.  We are drowning in debt at levels that will destroy the future of our children.  We need to be fanatical.  We have four years to destroy the swamp monsters and try to prevent them from ever coming back.   You obviously are in denial, but the truth is out there.  Continue to listen to the lying bastards on the government propaganda media channels as they all parrot the same message worshiping big government.  

[jonmx 2,484]

19 minutes ago, Tree of Knowledge said:

They only want USAID approved media.  

Big government run by globalist elitist authoritarian bastards.   Yeah!!!  Who doesn't love rgese corrupt power-hungry greedy bastards?