US EditionPulse of Politics: Pentagon press pushback & Michigan budget impact
Nearly all major media outlets refused Pentagon rules that restrict reporting and could revoke about 100 press passes, citing threats to journalistic independence.
- On Tuesday, US and international outlets including The New York Times, Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Fox News declined to sign The Pentagon's new press rules and face credential loss.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pushed an `In-Brief for Media Members` agreement after a late Friday memo demanding signatures or surrender of access, requiring reporters to restrict sharing military information and forbidding tip solicitation or photographing inside the Pentagon.
- The Pentagon has moved to restrict where reporters can go, require official escorts outside limited areas, remove some from long-established working spaces, and hold roughly half a dozen Defense Department briefings this year.
- News organizations including the Associated Press said they will continue covering the military despite losing Pentagon access, while the Pentagon Press Association warned reporters may surrender Pentagon access badges and only One America News Network said it would follow the new rules.
- Critics warned the rules could criminalize newsgathering like the Julian Assange case and cut the American public off from reporting on military sexual assault, corruption, and waste.
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Journalists to turn in press passes after news outlets reject new Pentagon rules
Dozens of journalists will turn in their Pentagon press passes Wednesday after major news outlets said they would not sign a new Defense Department policy that put restrictions on reporting.
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Journalists are no longer allowed to move freely in the Ministry of Defence. If you don't sign, you have to hand over your press cards and clear the jobs in the Ministry.
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