New York Times, AP, Newsmax among news outlets who say they won’t sign new Pentagon rules

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1. That’s a pretty big deal if even newsmax won’t sign the fascist pact

2. Good. They’re dangerous. Don’t normalize stuff like this.

3. You know it’s bad when even Newsmax won’t agree to it.

4. Even newsmax???

5. *Newsmax* doesn’t agree with the new rules?! Man, Hegseth must have *really* screwed up this job.

6. Don’t sign shit. If the Pentagon is simply outlining “proper media procedures,” then you can send an email. Why do you require a signature?

   Besides, if they’re afraid of important information getting out, stop using unauthorized mobile apps and allowing the Secretary of ~~War~~ Defense to include his wife in important war briefings.

7. When it is so batshit crazy that even the batshit crazy networks won’t sign it…

8. Access isn’t necessary when everything from this administration is a lie.

   Nice to see outlets standing firm against the authoritarian playbook.

9. That’s the point – they are *trying* to create a North Korean style state media. If Fox is the only station willing to support fascism, then the become the ONLY news station reporting on the Pentagon. 

10. Ok so OAN will be the only ones reporting. Thats great…..

    Imagine being so biased Newsmax is scared off.

11. More important is who HAS  because I’ll never consume them or their advertisers.

12. Heck, all they have to do is sign up to be added to the Signal Chat list. Easy peasy.

13. No self-respecting news organization would sign such a thing. Continue to cultivate and use sources within the pentagon, just don’t meet with them there. No need to be in the building to do real, compelling, indepth analysis and reportage. All the more reason to, all the more need to. Frankly, there’s not enough of it coming from the mainstream media independent of this development.

14. Who capitulated?

15. The threat has already been made. The end is now.

16. Oh I see we’ve reached the State Secrets Act stage of our plummet into authoritarianism.

17. There is no “news” coming from any area of this administration anyway, just propaganda

18. I thought this was just TDS? Surprise.lol

19. It may be time to stop doing cooperative journalism with the Trump regime. It may be time to treat them the way journalists deal with Russia and China (and other hostile countries). We certainly get news about those countries, news that’s not simply regurgitating their talking points.

20. They know the moment they sign on they lose their ability to report news, no matter how slanted it is, the way they want to report it.

    If they sign on they will become state owned not private and the greedy billionaire in position at the top will make sure they keep a dictator’s share of the profits.

21. One of these things isn’t like the others…

22. NYT should also establish an investigative desk specializing in defence. Decline the fascist-approved information feed, and also create your own information feed that Hegseth has no control over. 

23. Newsmax? Surely they mean Newsweek? Or…something?

24. Is there anyone actually signing it?

25. So how Luong before this administration just bans all the major media and just has influencers join the press briefings

26. Conservatives hate the constitution

27. So be it.

28. It’s ridiculous to demand that unclassified information has to be controlled. If you don’t want it out deem it to be classified. Then we start seeing everything being classified. Bob has chips with lunch. Classified! Hegseth is an authoritarian puppet.

29. Good!!

30. Freedom of the press is foundational to America’s democracy.

31. I think the Pentagon should be more worried about the Secretary of Defense leaking classified information to journalists by inviting them to classified meetings. It doesn’t matter how many media rules there are if the Secretary of Defense himself is breaking the laws that already exist and getting away with it. Hegseth is the biggest threat to the Pentagon. He’s doing more damage than the KGB and FSB ever dreamed of doing.

32. Their loss.

33. Good!

34. Who has signed this authoritarian bs?

35. >”This has caused reporters to have a full blown meltdown”

    Friendly reminder that *government officials did not used to speak this way in public. This is not normal*.

36. Our media is virtually now just wholly state propaganda. 

37. Trump News is close to launch.

38. It’s always funny when they use the word “common sense” as if that is a reason for everything.

39. Stop giving them a platform, and just report on them.

    There job done, it’s not like they’re going to give you truthful answers in any of the conferences anyway

40. It is good to see that the New York Times and AP are showing the same kind of spine to stand up to the government as NewsMax.

41. As much as I love the principled stand, the problem is that suits Hegseth and his pals fine. He has no problems with only working with OAN, as they will compliantly write what he wants, how he wants, and the other media outlets can cover it second hand or not.

42. Tell us about ALL the outlets that SIGNED so we can boycott them

43. NPR has said no as well. Newsmax kind of surprised me.

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