The Trump Presidency 2.0

[ThunderHorse]

If I was the protesting type… I would go just to protest this…

US news outlets reject Pentagon press access policy

WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - At least 30 news organizations declined to sign a new Pentagon access policy for journalists, warning of the potential for less comprehensive coverage of the world's most powerful military ahead of a Tuesday deadline to accept new restrictions.

The policy requires journalists to acknowledge new rules on press access, including that they could be branded security risks and have their Pentagon press badges revoked if they ask department employees to disclose classified and some types of unclassified information.




How can this not be a bigger story? I voted for the guy, I think he’s done a few good things, but this kind of stuff is the slippery slope that can easily be the beginning of the end…

Please, someone explain to me why this is no big deal and I have nothing to fear about the United States government putting these types of restrictions on the media. A media by the way, that Trump has seemingly been at war with since he was elected.

Because it's a non-story? The story is actually the liberal media spinning it.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1978495805385273781

She links the guidelines in the next tweet. I don't see anything you can remotely be outraged about.

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Also uh...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1979962748877385994

Feel free to merge last two posts. Currently on my phone.

 

[compforce]

If I was the protesting type… I would go just to protest this…

US news outlets reject Pentagon press access policy

WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - At least 30 news organizations declined to sign a new Pentagon access policy for journalists, warning of the potential for less comprehensive coverage of the world's most powerful military ahead of a Tuesday deadline to accept new restrictions.

The policy requires journalists to acknowledge new rules on press access, including that they could be branded security risks and have their Pentagon press badges revoked if they ask department employees to disclose classified and some types of unclassified information.




How can this not be a bigger story? I voted for the guy, I think he’s done a few good things, but this kind of stuff is the slippery slope that can easily be the beginning of the end…

Please, someone explain to me why this is no big deal and I have nothing to fear about the United States government putting these types of restrictions on the media. A media by the way, that Trump has seemingly been at war with since he was elected.

Wait, so if the media knows it is a classified topic (or sensitive but unclass) and they continue to ask about it they can be classed as a security risk and have their access to the pentagon revoked. How is that a problem?


I and many others here have been in situations where asking the person sharing a room or tent how their day went would get your security privileges reviewed or revoked. There have been entire rooms where when I entered, with a security clearance and authorization, would have to close or cover their computers and do nothing until I left. Hell, there was this one time in band camp when mentioning the acronym for a certain mission would get you sent back CONUS on the next flight. Not even the name, just the abbreviation.

WTF gives the media ANY right to ask about classified information?? If they are digging for classified info, they deserve to be put out of the pentagon.

And if they won't agree to those terms, do they belong there in the first place?

 

[Ooh-Rah]

I appreciate the different perspectives on the Pentagon/reporter topic. Thank you for that.

 

[Kraut783]

I, for one, had no idea the press was given so much freedom inside the Pentagon….