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Media including Fox News overwhelmingly reject Hegseth press policy

Old_JoeOld_Joe
edited October 14 in Off-Topic
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Washington Post:
Fox News, along with ABC, CBS and NBC, did not sign the Defense Department’s press policy by Tuesday’s deadline, having earlier in the day denounced the new regulations in a joint statement that included CNN, which previously said it would not sign.

Fox’s dissent is notable considering the Trump-friendly views of many of its opinion hosts, whose ranks previously included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. As of Tuesday’s 5 p.m. deadline, only the MAGA-friendly One America News had said it would sign the policy.

The TV networks joined many other outlets in saying no, including The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, Reuters, Bloomberg News and the Atlantic. Right-wing outlets including Newsmax, the Washington Times and the Washington Examiner also declined to sign, along with a raft of defense-related trade publications. A list of outlets’ stances on the rules is below.

News outlets’ stances on the Pentagon’s new media rules:

Signing
• One America News

Refusing to sign
• ABC News
• Air & Space Forces Magazine
• Al Jazeera
• AL-Monitor
• Associated Press
• The Atlantic
• Aviation Week
• Axios
• Bloomberg News
• Breaking Defense
• C4ISRNET
• CBS News
• CNN
• Defense Daily
• Defense News
• Defense One
• The Economist
• Federal Times
• The Financial Times
• Fox News
• The Guardian
• The Hill
• HuffPost
• Military Times
• MSNBC
• NBC News
• The New York Times
• Newsmax
• NPR
• PBS Newshour
• Politico
• RealClearPolitics
• Reuters
• Task & Purpose
• USNI News
• The Wall Street Journal
• The Washington Examiner
• The Washington Post
• The Washington Times
• WTOP

The Defense Department did not respond to a request for comment.

Comments

  • a2z
    edited October 15
    even the rightwing rags (but one) somehow realized there were signing up to unlimited liability for public unclassified information.

    just make it simple and invite them all to hegseth chat groups.
  • DrVenture
    Censorship, propaganda & intimidation.

  • hank
    edited October 15
    Hegseth doesn’t want someone leaking our (secret) plans to attack Venezuela.
  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    @hank- See you in Somalia...
  • hank
    edited October 15
    I thought of you tonight OJ when I heard Trump justify using Navy missile firing ships to blow up Venezuelan boats (instead of using the CG to board & search first) because our USCG boats are ”too slow” … Never heard that one before,

    Every day’s a new adventure.
  • MarkMark
    Just like everything else in his life he prefers that it be quick, illegal, wrong and dirty.
  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    edited October 15
    Hell, if he thinks that they're slow now, he couldn't begin to imagine how slow they were when I was in. Almost every large Coast Guard ship that we had was a very used hand-me-down from the Navy (typically destroyer escorts), with a quick fix-up and nice paint job.

    I have very mixed feelings on taking out those small fast boats- they're basically good-sized speedboats with huge dual outboard engines- that type of boat is used for one thing, and it certainly ain't fishing.

    I realize that it's pushing the envelope legally, but I can understand the concept of those boats being used by interests who, in a practical sense, have declared "war" on US citizens and interests.
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