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White House bars AP, Reuters and other media from covering Trump cabinet meeting

K.M. Richards said:
I remember someone asking that in a similar situation and his response was that Xenforo doesn't allow it.
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I don't think that's true, but I don't know much about Xenforo, other than every major forum that I frequent adopted it a few years ago, sometime during 2021 (Invision or whatever it's called was a popular one before that).

Since he wants to eventually move to a different platform anyway, it's probably best not to push the issue too hard and just deal with having two parallel threads for now.

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Journalists will eventually be able to work from an “annex” outside the building, which he said “will be available when ready.” He offered no detail about how long that will take.
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The pentagon keeps talking about security. But that's supposed to be handled by the credential process. To receive press credentials, you must go through a full background check, fingerprints, and other high level security measures. So to say these people are security risks ignores the process they go through to be there.

Keep in mind not everyone in the pentagon is military. There are lots of civilian workers there who also go through the same security checks as the media. And the entire building sits on top of a major Metro stop. Civilians use that stop every day.
 
U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman convened a hearing in response to complaints from The New York Times that the Pentagon is defying his earlier order to restore access by subsequently shutting down the decades-old Correspondents Corridor and giving journalists unescorted access only to a library at the margins of the complex.
Friedman appeared troubled by a declaration Times reporter Julian Barnes filed with the court saying the new arrangements appeared to require credentialed reporters to travel through Pentagon hallways that officials have declared off-limits or take a shuttle bus that is also typically off limits to journalists.




“How weird is that?” the judge said. “Is this a Catch-22? Is this Kafka?”
Justice Department attorney Sarah Welch told Friedman that the information given to the Times may have preceded the new policy and that journalists could access a temporary workspace directly from the Pentagon parking lot or take the shuttle.
Friedman also indicated he was troubled by an aspect of the new policy that allows journalists’ credentials to be revoked if the reporters offer anonymity while asking for information they know to be classified or barred from release under specific laws. The judge said his earlier ruling found that, under the First Amendment, merely asking a question could never be punished.
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Here is more on the Pentagon and Press access in the pool.

Friedman ruled on March 20 that the policy violated protections for news gathering and due process in the U.S. Constitution. He issued an injunction requiring reporters' credentials to be restored immediately.
The New York Times, the lead plaintiff that sued to challenge Hegseth's policy, told Friedman last week that the Pentagon had not complied with ‌his ⁠order but instead released what it called a new "interim" policy defying the court ruling.
The policy, the Times said, bars reporters with press passes from entering the building without an escort, sets up rules governing when a reporter can offer anonymity to a source and prohibits reporters from knowingly "inducing" sources to share unauthorized information.
"Nothing will stop them. Not a court order. Not an injunction," a lawyer for the Times, Ted Boutrous, ⁠told Friedman at Monday's hearing. He said the department embarked on a "mad scramble" not to comply with the court's prior order but to violate it.
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ted chittenden said:
All right! During future television news stories on the actions of the Department of Defense and its secretary, past unflattering pictures of the Secretary of Defense taken before the ban was imposed should be used.

That son-of-a-... Never mind!
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Its crazier than we think a social media comedian is being targeted by the President because he just did a parody of one of Trump allies in unflattering form. Yes the threat of a lawsuit from Trump is in the same form we said about TV hosts being targeted by the FCC via license threats whenever they do parodies of Trump or in this case his Allies.

www.the-independent.com

Trump urges Erika Kirk to sue comedian who mocked MAGA women

‘Sue their a** off,’ Trump told Charlie Kirk’s widow during a White House Easter event
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www.yahoo.com

Donald Trump Has a Suggestion for Erika Kirk Over Druski Skit: ‘Sue Their A** Off’

With Druski continuing to take shots at Erika Kirk, the wife of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump has advised the Turning Point CEO to take legal action against such content creat...
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Trump threatens to jail journalist who first reported on downed airman

Wait one second when did the Pentagon determine any of this and also how was this investigated if this was true. Also most of the time whenever we hear about journalists in war areas like Iran they are mainly stringers for the wire services by the time we hear about these events.

www.nbcnews.com

Trump vows at news conference to obliterate Iran's power plants and bridges if there's no deal on ending the war

The president also threatened to jail journalists at the news outlet that first reported a second U.S. airman was missing last week after an American fighter jet was shot down in Iran.
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Trump said that someone leaked information about the rescue of the first service member before the second one had been brought to safety, adding, "we're looking very hard to find that leaker."

Trump said Iran did not know that a second service member was missing until the leaker shared information.
"All of a sudden, they know that there's somebody out there," he said of the Iranians. "They see all these planes coming in. It became a much more difficult operation because a leaker leaked that we have one, we've rescued one, but there's another one out there that we're trying to get.

"So actually, the country Iran, put out a major notice — you all saw it — offering a very big award for anybody that captures the pilot," Trump said. "So in addition to a hostile, very talented, very good, very evil military, we had millions of people trying to get an award, so when you add that to it, but we have to find that leaker, because that's a sick person."

"We think we'll be able to find it out," Trump said of the leaker's identity. "Because we're going to go to the media company that released it, and we're going to say, 'National security, give it up or go to jail.'"
Trump did not specify which media company he was referring to. Any attempt to jail reporters over not giving up the identities of sources would almost certainly face immediate legal pushback.
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Live updates: Iran rejects latest ceasefire proposal, calling instead for permanent end to the war

Iran's state media said Tehran rejected the latest ceasefire proposal and wants a permanent end to the war, a day before U.S. President Donald Trump's deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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Trump threatened to jail the journalist who first reported that U.S. forces were searching for an F-15 weapons officer shot down in Iran, if they don’t reveal their sources.

“The person that did the story will go to jail if he doesn’t say, and that doesn’t last long,” Trump said.

Trump didn’t name the journalist or news organization. He said the leak tipped off the Iranians, endangering the officer and his rescuers. He called the leaker “a sick person.”
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Y2kTheNewOldies said:
Trump threatens to jail journalist who first reported on downed airman

Wait one second when did the Pentagon determine any of this and also how was this investigated if this was true. Also most of the time whenever we hear about journalists in war areas like Iran they are mainly stringers for the wire services by the time we hear about these events.

www.nbcnews.com

Trump vows at news conference to obliterate Iran's power plants and bridges if there's no deal on ending the war

The president also threatened to jail journalists at the news outlet that first reported a second U.S. airman was missing last week after an American fighter jet was shot down in Iran.
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apnews.com

Live updates: Iran rejects latest ceasefire proposal, calling instead for permanent end to the war

Iran's state media said Tehran rejected the latest ceasefire proposal and wants a permanent end to the war, a day before U.S. President Donald Trump's deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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Iran would have been tipped off once a bunch of U.S. planes entered its airspace regardless of whether there was a leaker or not. And, whoever the journalist and his organization was, I hope they have the money to fight this one. President Trump is absolutely determined to destroy the press freedoms in the First Amendment so it's going to take a lot of good legal power to give whoever the journalist is a chance at winning his case.
 
ted chittenden said:
Iran would have been tipped off once a bunch of U.S. planes entered its airspace regardless of whether there was a leaker or not. And, whoever the journalist and his organization was, I hope they have the money to fight this one. President Trump is absolutely determined to destroy the press freedoms in the First Amendment so it's going to take a lot of good legal power to give whoever the journalist is a chance at winning his case.
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And also in past cases whenever we hear about war reporters they are freelancers and stringers sending the content to AP and Reuters to the rest of the world. I remember in past cases I read the obits of some of the war journalists who were in Gaza and their obit mentioned that they worked as freelancers for AP and Reuters or their country’s news outlet at the time of their deaths. They were killed on duty.

time.com

These Are the Journalists Israel Has Killed Since the Start of the Iran War

Israel appears to be systematically targeting journalists who worked for media owned by Hezbollah. Even the group's opponents decry the killings as illegal.
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apnews.com

Increasing the danger: Journalist killing in Gaza sends a chilling message

The targeted killing of an Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza over the weekend was a notable moment even for a war that has been remarkably blood-soaked for journalists.
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www.independent.co.uk

House Democrats file 6 impeachment articles against Hegseth

Democrats are targeting Hegseth after the ousting of Kristi Noem as Homeland Security Secretary and Pam Bondi as Attorney General
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www.newsweek.com

Pete Hegseth faces impeachment threat: Full list of sponsors

Representative Yassamin Ansari introduced six articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday.
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We mentioned previously that Pete Hegseth was abusing his power at the Pentagon in relation to controlling the Press pool at the Pentagon. Now certain members of Congress have filed a impeachment against Hegseth for the war crime allegations part. For now that won’t overturn the current pentagon press pool policy.
 
The secretary of the pentagon attacked the media again today. Mind you, he still hasn't complied with a judge's ruling about his media rules. So he's still addressing his hand-picked reporters. But anyway, his skin is about the same thickness as his boss

www.nbcnews.com

Pete Hegseth attacks 'unpatriotic' media and compares reporters to Jewish biblical group

The defense secretary has frequently attacked the media over Iran war coverage.
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Even Fox News thinks he went too far. What do you call a government that refuses to abide by the courts? This was reported on Tuesday:

www.usatoday.com

Pentagon press policy ruled unconstitutional again by federal judge

The Pentagon said its revised policy addressed the court's concerns, but the judge said its "slightly different language" that had the same effect.
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TheBigA said:
The secretary of the pentagon attacked the media again today. Mind you, he still hasn't complied with a judge's ruling about his media rules. So he's still addressing his hand-picked reporters. But anyway, his skin is about the same thickness as his boss

www.nbcnews.com

Pete Hegseth attacks 'unpatriotic' media and compares reporters to Jewish biblical group

The defense secretary has frequently attacked the media over Iran war coverage.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com

Even Fox News thinks he went too far. What do you call a government that refuses to abide by the courts? This was reported on Tuesday:

www.usatoday.com

Pentagon press policy ruled unconstitutional again by federal judge

The Pentagon said its revised policy addressed the court's concerns, but the judge said its "slightly different language" that had the same effect.
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Dysfunction and abuse of power lead by this group. But still Pete Hegseth has an impeachment complaint on him for the war crimes allegations part.

For now I have no proof Hegseth will change the Pentagon Press pool policy. Remember Chairman Carr attempted to play the same strategy with the press pool by threatening to go after TV Networks after their "License" over their coverage of Iran but that fell flat once we saw the dysfunction from inside the Pentagon and White House. Also in every case we keep having to remind everyone that its local TV affiliates that have their licenses questioned by the FCC. In every case we had to consider if the FCC is going after the networks its their O&O in Los Angeles and New York that's the target given that the main offices for networks are there.
 
TheBigA said:
The pentagon has now banned all reporters from its press room, saying it's a classified area:


This comes weeks after a judge said the pentagon can't place restrictions on the press.

They obviously don't want any coverage of what the military is doing.
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Well all that does is that we have to wait for multiple congressional hearings and whistleblowers come forward to get a fraction of the picture that the military is doing.
 


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