(It's like they took everything they said ObamaGod was going to do in 2009 and made it into their policy program. And yet MAGA still tells themselves they voted for this shit.)
from NPR (H/T T)
Today, NPR will lose access to the Pentagon because we will not sign an unprecedented Defense Department
document, which warns that journalists may lose their press credentials
for "soliciting" even unclassified information from federal employees
that has not been officially approved for release. That policy prevents
us from doing our job. Signing that document would make us stenographers
parroting press releases, not watchdogs holding government officials
accountable.
No reputable news organization signed the new rule — not mainstream outlets like NPR, The Washington Post, CNN, and The New York Times, nor the conservative Washington Times
or the right-wing Newsmax, run by a noted ally of President Trump. Some
100 resident Pentagon press will be barred from the building if they
don't sign by the end of business on Tuesday.
I've held my
Pentagon press pass for 28 years. For most of that time, when I wasn't
overseas in combat zones embedding with troops, I walked the halls,
talking to and getting to know officers from all over the globe, at
times visiting them in their offices...
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