Pentagon Ousts Mainstream Outlets From Press Office

February 1, 2025 Journalism, Military

Yahoo News reports:

The department’s “new Annual Media Rotation Program” will begin on Feb. 14, and will require The New York Times, NBC News, National Public Radio, and Politico to vacate “their physical office space effective” on that date.

In their stead, The New York Post, One America News Network, Breitbart News, and HuffPost will move into the vacated office space. The memo makes clear that the outlets getting the boot “will remain as full members of the Pentagon Press Corps.

The Post, OAN, and Breitbart are all extremely pro-Trump organizations, though the inclusion of HuffPost – a historically liberal website – is curious. The president has long railed against legacy media outlets such as The New York Times.

Read the full article.

The Pentagon is pushing several mainstream media outlets out of their Pentagon offices to give them to mostly right-wing ones.

NYT out for the NY Post
NBC out for One America News
NPR out for Breitbart
Politico for HuffPopic.twitter.com/dFUBoVJyMN

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