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

TheBigA said:
It would be a good poll question. Ask the public how they feel about receiving "approved" news. The problem is the public doesn't know. They don't care about the pentagon until we get attacked. Then it matters. But until then, the government can lie to them, and it's easier to lie when nobody's asking serious questions. It's all reality TV show stuff.
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I assume foreign media will be excluded, if they were even included before. I was listening to the BBC World Service on SiriusXM yesterday and heard the news reader call Hegseth "War Secretary Pete Hegseth." The name still hasn't been changed officially, has it? Could the Beeb be kissing the ring, in some small way, to open the door a crack for more coverage of the administration?
 
My take is that people don't care about restrictions on the press. They won't care until it affects them. Even then, most of them won't care. The president knows that. It's why he does what he does. He's probably not running for re-election anyway. So he will face no penalty.
 
CTListener said:
I assume foreign media will be excluded, if they were even included before. I was listening to the BBC World Service on SiriusXM yesterday and heard the news reader call Hegseth "War Secretary Pete Hegseth." The name still hasn't been changed officially, has it? Could the Beeb be kissing the ring, in some small way, to open the door a crack for more coverage of the administration?
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The article you provided didn't discuss this but there was an article in Daily Kos yesterday about how one of the newly-approved media for the Pentagon has direct Russian ties, even though its chair is a U.S. citizen. We are now on a *very* dangerous course.
 
I compare what's happening now to what happened 100 years ago after the last pandemic. Back then, the people put up with prohibition. If the people will put up with no alcohol, meaning no beer, wine, or spirits, they can put up with pretty much anything. They lived under prohibition for ten years, under two republican presidents: Coolidge and Hoover. Then the depression hit, Roosevelt came in, and they repealed prohibition. We're nowhere near that point yet. So I expect a lot more bad things to happen, a lot more complaining, and very little action to stop it until something like the depression hits.
 
TheBigA said:
So I expect a lot more bad things to happen, a lot more complaining, and very little action to stop it until something like the depression hits.
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I tell people to just hold on tight for dear life, because it's going to get rockier before it gets smoother again.

To those in my (Boomers) generation, I liken it to an E-ticket ride at Disneyland. We still remember those and the comparison is immediately recognized.
 
TheBigA said:
It would be a good poll question. Ask the public how they feel about receiving "approved" news. The problem is the public doesn't know. They don't care about the pentagon until we get attacked. Then it matters. But until then, the government can lie to them, and it's easier to lie when nobody's asking serious questions. It's all reality TV show stuff.
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True and the ones that signed this Pentagon Press Pool policy under secretary are not traditionally known as "mainstream media" like AP, Reuters, New York Times, NPR, big 4 networks are known for. In this case the ones that signed the Pentagon Press Pool policy are known for organizing political rallies not so much on the journalism side of this.
 
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Conservative activist Laura Loomer, a Trump ally, says she has a new Pentagon press pass

Conservative activist Laura Loomer says she's been granted credentials to join the Pentagon press corps.
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Laura Loomer joins the Pentagon Press Pool. Loomer is mainly a political pundit that’s notable for showing up in Trump rallies. Well how will we get reliable information from the Pentagon if the Press pool is filled with groups whose backgrounds are those most notable for mainly appearing in rallies as pundits.
 
Y2kTheNewOldies said:
. Well how will we get reliable information from the Pentagon if the Press pool is filled with groups whose backgrounds are those most notable for mainly appearing in rallies as pundits.
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Many of those "pundits" have a larger podcast audience than nearly all major newspapers.
 
Y2kTheNewOldies said:
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Conservative activist Laura Loomer, a Trump ally, says she has a new Pentagon press pass

Conservative activist Laura Loomer says she's been granted credentials to join the Pentagon press corps.
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Laura Loomer joins the Pentagon Press Pool. Loomer is mainly a political pundit that’s notable for showing up in Trump rallies. Well how will we get reliable information from the Pentagon if the Press pool is filled with groups whose backgrounds are those most notable for mainly appearing in rallies as pundits.
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That was a question that NPR's current Defense (it's not yet officially War) department reporter Tom Bowman answered by saying that he and other reporters would most likely meet with department officials and others off duty to learn what was going on. He noted that the use of unnamed sources would probably be key in this coverage. It's certainly not the best coverage but it is the best that we can get for now.
 
ted chittenden said:
That was a question that NPR's current Defense (it's not yet officially War) department reporter Tom Bowman answered by saying that he and other reporters would most likely meet with department officials and others off duty to learn what was going on. He noted that the use of unnamed sources would probably be key in this coverage. It's certainly not the best coverage but it is the best that we can get for now.
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True too and some of this extends to the White House press pool and the same questions were asked there too. I seen the partial list of the Pentagon press pool and it had names like Turning Point, Mike Lindell, and Laura Loomer. These organizations are more known for organizing rallies, running Superpacs, running lobbying organizations that are related President Trump than operating as news organizations got spots in in the press pool.

Here is Reuters and New York Times as examples of news organizations getting stories that are related to defense via “Unnamed Pentagon Officials”. Yes the story involved an incident in the Caribbean.

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News stories show that reporters may have left the Pentagon, but they haven't stopped working

Dozens of reporters stationed at the Pentagon walked out this week and surrendered their access badges rather than sign on to new rules imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth they said would restrict how they do their jobs.
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Reuters broke news Thursday about the first U.S. attack on a boat in the Caribbean where some of the passengers survived. Reporter Phil Stewart, stationed at the Pentagon before leaving Wednesday, sourced it to a “U.S. official” who was not named. President Donald Trump confirmed the attack on Friday as more details emerged, including that two people were taken into U.S. custody.
The New York Times reported on the sudden retirement of U.S. Navy Adm. Alvin Holsey, leader of the U.S. Southern Command, which oversees operations in Central and South America, including use of the military in the administration’s drug-fighting efforts.
Times reporters Eric Schmitt, who covers national security, and Tyler Pager, based in the White House, quoted two unnamed officials saying that Holsey had expressed concerns about the mission and attacks on the boats. The reporters pointed out the unusual nature of a retirement one year into Holsey’s expected three-year command.
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Arizona figures with extremist connections join the new Pentagon media pool | Arizona Mirror

Pentagon press corps far-right Arizona journalists replace mainstream reporters after government restrictions imposed
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Here’s more names in the Pentagon Press Pool and it includes those that have ties to Kari Lake and Trump in the article. Yes Salem has signed the Pentagon Press pool policy as seen here.

And a former Arizona Republican Party communications staffer will also be in the press corps covering the U.S. Department of Defense.

“Proud to announce that I will be a credentialed Pentagon Correspondent for (Red State) covering defense and national security,” R.C. Maxwell posted on X. “A reporter’s burden isn’t to undermine or delegitimize the subjects they cover, but to report the truth to the people. The next generation is here.”

Maxwell has also worked for groups like Project Veritas, but has no background in journalism.

RedState, the media organization Maxwell will be working for, is part of the Salem Media Group, a media group based out of Texas that focuses on “Christian and Conservative audiences.” Both the founders of Salem Media group serve on the secretive Council for National Policy, which also includes some notable Arizonans.
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The reality is that the main reason to get a press pass is to ask questions at press conferences. If the press conferences are mainly antagonistic events, where the spokesman attacks the media or democrats, rather than provide real information, then there's no point in having a press pass. Reporters can get better information from contacts inside the buildings who aren't the public spokesmen. People talk. The news gets out. Maybe not with attribution, but there are no secrets in Washington.
 
ted chittenden said:
The President wants the name of the Department of Defense to be changed to the Department of War. However, as I understand it (from an NPR report), an official name change cannot take place without a vote by both houses of Congress.
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I just checked. The online version of the story has been corrected, but the print edition had the "new" name.
 
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Top BBC bosses resign after criticism of the broadcaster’s editing of a Trump speech

The head of the BBC has resigned after criticism of the broadcaster’s editing of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Here we go it’s all an extension of stuff we seen with the media within the US. Apparently the White House can meddle with the BBC even though on the nominal level we would think the Administration has no jurisdiction or control on the media outside of the United States.
 


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