Washington Post, NYT and More Reject Trump's Revised Pentagon Press Policy, Citing First Amendment Rights [View all]

Source: The Wrap

The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Guardian U.S., Newsmax and others have spurned the Pentagon’s new press restrictions ahead of its Monday deadline.

Matt Murray, the D.C. paper’s executive editor, said the restrictions proposed by the Pete Hegseth-led Pentagon placed “unnecessary restrictions” on the reporting process.

“We will continue to vigorously and fairly report on the policies and position of the Pentagon and officials across the government,” Murray said in a statement.

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The Pentagon’s latest guidelines for reporters assigned to the building, unveiled last week, require reporters to acknowledge its policy to not engage in “solicitation” with military officials or risk their access to the building. It was an escalation of its increasingly tight-strung policies that came a week after it unveiled — and news organizations rebuked — a policy that demanded reporters not publish information not authorized for public release.

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