Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power. The nation’s leadership called the new rules “common sense” to help regulate a “very disruptive” press.
News outlets were nearly unanimous in rejecting new rules imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that would leave journalists vulnerable to expulsion if they sought to report on information — classified or otherwise — that had not been approved by Hegseth for release.
Many of the reporters waited to leave together at a 4 p.m. deadline set by the Defense Department to get out of the building. As the hour approached, boxes of documents lined a Pentagon corridor and reporters carried chairs, a copying machine, books and old photos to the parking lot from suddenly abandoned workspaces. Shortly after 4, about 40 to 50 journalists left together after handing in badges.
Not explaining how this is a hallmark of authoritarian rule, but quoting the bullshit reasons the regime pretends to believe in is still a failing of the duty of the press.
There is essentially no legitimate mainstream media anymore. They’ve all been acquired by some late stage cap oligarch, so anything they print will be filtered through the lens of disseminating propaganda and manufacturing content on their behalf.
Edit: I’m in no way advocating that “alternative” news is less bias or more trustworthy. The point is that you can’t inherently trust ANY media by brand name recognition, the same way that you can no longer trust that brand name equals quality in general; that only applied when there was actual competition instead of a handful of corporations owning the majority of every industry, all sharing the same board of directors, reporting to the same few hundred oligarchs.
I mean, NPR?
Have you ever seen NPR or PBS refer to the thousands of Palestinian civilians kidnapped and indefinitely detained, without charges or trial, as “hostages”? Because I haven’t. They are always “prisoners”.
Ap news is solid. Their reporting is consistently high quality. With breaking news they dont try and report all the unverified information sticking close to what is actually known.
You are never going to get news that isnt filtered through someone’s lens. Alternative news is 1000x worse when it comes to disseminating propaganda.
They did not include which orgs complied with the regime, or draw parallels to the “ministry of truth” authoritarian precedent that this action represents. Look at what they choose to omit.
I never said alternative media is more trustworthy or less bias.
From the article in the OP:
They didn’t? It sure seems like they did to me.
APnews isnt there to list orgs that comply or draw parallels. Theyre a news site they tell you what’s happening you read that and if you want to go further you can.There are plenty of other sites that will do that.