Washington Post, NYT and More Reject Trump's Revised Pentagon Press Policy, Citing First Amendment Rights

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Source: The Wrap

The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Guardian U.S., Newsmax and others have spurned the Pentagon’s new press restrictions ahead of its Monday deadline.

Matt Murray, the D.C. paper’s executive editor, said the restrictions proposed by the Pete Hegseth-led Pentagon placed “unnecessary restrictions” on the reporting process.

“We will continue to vigorously and fairly report on the policies and position of the Pentagon and officials across the government,” Murray said in a statement.

Link to tweet

The Pentagon’s latest guidelines for reporters assigned to the building, unveiled last week, require reporters to acknowledge its policy to not engage in “solicitation” with military officials or risk their access to the building. It was an escalation of its increasingly tight-strung policies that came a week after it unveiled — and news organizations rebuked — a policy that demanded reporters not publish information not authorized for public release.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/washington-post-nyt-more-reject-182313458.html

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1. Right from the playbook of the fascists.

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2. By the way, ... Epstein. . . . nt

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3. CNN: Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon's press access rules

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/media/pentagon-hegseth-press-restrictions-newsmax-atlantic

By Brian Stelter 4 hr ago


The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign.

The Pentagon Press Association, a body that represents the beat reporters, says the new policy championed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “gags Pentagon employees and threatens retaliation against reporters who seek out information that has not been pre-approved for release.”

In a statement on Monday, the association said that “potential expulsion from the Pentagon should be a concern to all.”

In short, many reporters and their employers feel they can’t stomach the new restrictions, so many news outlets stand to lose physical access to the Pentagon complex — something that has been a standard part of Washington-area news coverage for decades.

Editors and reporters say they’ll continue to cover the US military thoroughly, with or without press credentials. Some well-known members of the Pentagon press corps have used the credentialing controversy to encourage tipsters to get in touch with them.

Representatives for CNN, Reuters, The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and NPR have all said that journalists from their newsrooms are not signing the new paperwork about Pentagon access.


What about MAGA outlets?

Some partisan media outlets have also raised objections: Newsmax, the pro-Trump cable channel and website, said Monday that its reporters have no plans to sign either. .........................................................

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4. After review, locking.

This is a duplicate of the same news story posted earlier.

Dupe of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143546795