Pentagon announces a new right-wing press corps after mass walkout

[highplainsdem]

Source: Washington Post

Nearly one week since a rash of Pentagon journalists turned in their press credentials after refusing to sign a new restrictive press policy, the Defense Department announced a “new media” press corps, largely hailing from right-wing outlets.

The 60 people from various news organizations represent, “a broad spectrum of new media outlets and independent journalists,” Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote in a statement on X, adding that all of the publications agreed to the agency’s press policy.

According to an draft of the announcement obtained by The Washington Post ahead of Parnell’s tweet, the coalition of signatories includes streaming service Lindell TV (started by MyPillow CEO and Trump ally Mike Lindell), the websites the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial, Human Events, and the National Pulse. It also includes Turning Point USA’s media brand Frontlines, as well as influencer Tim Pool’s Timcast, and a Substack-based newsletter called Washington Reporter. The memo said that “many independent journalists” also signed, but did not specify who they were.

Timcast, the National Pulse, and the Washington Reporter all confirmed to The Post that they had signed the policy. The Post Millennial, Human Events, TPUSA Frontlines, Lindell TV and the Gateway Pundit all confirmed on X.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/22/pentagon-press-corps-right-wing-media/

[The Roux Comes First]

1. Presumably All They Traded in Before Signing Hewed Narrowly to the Propaganda/Gossip Spectrum

That is the fake news standard for these right-wing operations anyway, so this is likely no change at all.

[aggiesal]

2. The ''new media'' press corps becomes the ''new media'' propaganda corps n/t

[wolfie001]

6. Killing civilians at home and abroad

So much to be proud about from these f6ckin' nazi pigs.

[Qutzupalotl]

3. Tim Pool was exposed as a Kremlin stooge.

The others are not much better.

[wolfie001]

4. I'll refer to it as 'The Nazi Consortium'

[COL Mustard]

5. This group will no doubt

Make Fox News look intellectual, and the Epoch Times look mainstream. Yeesh.

[BadgerKid]

7. Time to rewatch

Good Morning Vietnam

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. "The Pentagon announces they are replacing The New York Times' press credentials with the MyPillow guy's media outlet."

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Radley Balko
‪@radleybalko.bsky.social‬

This is not a joke. It actually happened.

‪Brian Tyler Cohen‬
‪@briantylercohen.bsky.social‬
· 45m
The Pentagon announces they are replacing The New York Times’ press credentials with the MyPillow guy’s media outlet.

22 October 2025 at 16:12

This is not a joke. It actually happened.

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) 2025-10-22T20:12:39.876Z

[cliffside]

9. knr nt

[Grins]

10. NOT ONE of those groups has reporters!

NBC, CBS, Reuters, CNN, Fox, the Wall Street Journal, etc - they have REPORTERS!

The groups taking their place are POLITICAL COMMENTATORS! They yap the Reich-wing’s talking points about the stories published by legitimate REPORTERS from legitimate news organizations.

They don’t seek out stories, or interview sources, or have people covering the major commands around the world like USAREUR, Central Command, Cyber Command, Northern Command, Atlantic and Pacific fleets, etc., etc.?

How is Gateway Pundit, with a staff of three lying shit-bag propagandists, going to cover the Pentagon and all three military branches - from fucking Missouri?

Or the several commands around the world? (And who the hell reads that dreck, anyway?)