Posted on 02/01/2025 5:49:53 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — The Department of Defense announced Friday night that it will institute a new “annual media rotation program” for its in-house press corps, effectively removing several major news outlets, including NBC News, from their Pentagon office spaces in favor of other outlets.
In addition to NBC News, The New York Times, National Public Radio and Politico must vacate their dedicated workspaces. The news organizations found out in a memo sent to the press corps without being individually notified, and an accompanying email included a message that read, in part, “no additional information will be provided at this time.”
“For over a half-century, the Pentagon Press Corps has benefited from working out of individual office spaces that provide coveted and open access to some of the Department’s top military and civilian leaders,” read the memo Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot sent to the Pentagon Press Association.
“In order to broaden access to the limited space of the Correspondents’ Corridor to outlets that have not previously enjoyed the privilege and journalist value of working from physical office space in the Pentagon, beginning February 14, 2025,” Ullyot wrote, there will be “a new Annual Media Rotation Program for those dedicated media spaces.”
The memo identified the rotating organizations by medium — selecting one each from TV, print, radio and online news to swap in and out. It said the news organizations rotating out had two weeks to vacate their spaces.
The new outlets rotating in are One America News Network — which will take NBC News’s spot — the New York Post, Breitbart News Network and HuffPost.
The Pentagon Press Association on Friday evening issued a statement saying, “Our resident press corps has greatly expanded over the years and we have always welcomed new members and will continue to do so.”
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Hoping the Babylon Bee comes up on the rotation
I suggest the spokesman go see his dentist because I could hear the gritting of teeth from here. Maybe the mouthpiece should get a mouthpiece to reduce tooth damage over the next four ( or eight or twelve) years.
Alex Jones getting a space woukd be a hoot.
They don’t report, they subvert.
Check
So sad...LOL!
Oh NO... this insult might cause major media outlets to make up mean, nasty, and foul disinformation to decei........ Oh wait! Never mind. 🤪🤪
I knew this was going to be an entertaining 4 years...
“several major news outlets, including NBC News”
Isn’t that nice? NBC considers itself a major news outlet. Don’t you need an audience to rate as major? Face it, the mainstream media is center right. Not far right like these far left lunatics claim. Enjoy the ash heap of history commies.
BTTT
‘Bout time they discipline some socialists.
Why would any of these news organizations even allowed in to the White House after pushing the BIG LIE about Russian Collusion???
Anything that leaks needs to be removed.
Which explains why they were shown the door.
Rumor has it that Alex Jones may be on the short list to be hanging out with the DC press corps. Now that would be GREAT!
The Dinosaur Press is looking at the meteor news.
This should serve for making a few needed changes & ticking off a few organizations that have thought too well of themselves for years. Sounds like we could accidentally be on the right path here.
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