NBC News reports:
Pentagon removes major media outlets, including NBC News, from dedicated workstations in new 'rotation program' -- NBC News, The New York Times, NPR and Politico must vacate their office spaces in two weeks for other news organizations — including at least one that did not request to be added. .... The new outlets rotating in are One America News Network — which will take NBC News’s spot — the New York Post [owned by Rupert Murdoch], Breitbart News Network and HuffPost. Three of the new outlets are conservative, while HuffPost leans progressive. HuffPost does not have a Pentagon correspondent, and the site did not request a space, spokesperson Lizzie Grams said. .... The memo did not include further details about the process of the new “rotation program,” including how officials chose which outlets needed to vacate office space first, how the new outlets were chosen and which are next, and how long an outlet would remain without an office space before it was rotated back into the building.
That is yet another corrupt authoritarian move. Here, MAGA acts to subvert Pentagon news reporting by replacing four high fact accuracy sources with two medium credibility sources and two low credibility, i.e., crackpot, sources. From here on out, we can expect a higher level of lies, opacity and pro-DJT and pro-MAGA military propaganda. This rotation will lead to biased scrutiny of Pentagon activities, with all four of the incoming outlets having lower fact reporting standards compared to departing organizations. The change will amplify partisan MAGA propaganda while decreasing evidence-based military coverage.
These four are getting kicked out.
These four are put in. Politico didn't even ask to be included.
