You know something is off when Fox News declines your new rules.
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2025
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also NEWSMAX declined too.
If they can't spin that shit, they won't touch it.
This. It's not "journalistic integrity", the way Hegseth has worded things, this prevents outlets from spinning or telling half the story. It's literally back to WWII press - here is the story from the War Department, you may print this and nothing else, with no editorializing.
probably hard to spin it if, there is no left leaning material to rail on.
And fucking newsmaxx
Wouldn't surprise me if Newsmaxx opted out to seem "balanced" or some stupid psyop shit
This is a hilarious self-own.
NatSec reporters are critical components for modern defense policy, as they are how the planners and politicians manufacture consent across the populace.
I don't think this will turn all of these journalists against their masters, errrrr sources, but I bet you get a few additional cases of journalism that would have been previously swept under the rug as favors for said sources.
Maybe not enough to rock the system, but possibly enough to pressure Hegseth.
Hit the nail on the head with manufactured consent. That was the old way of doing things, it’s all top-down autocracy now. No need to get the public to understand anything, the Trump fascists will do the thinking for you.
I think the silver lining right now with this new policy is that journalists can’t physically go to the Pentagon for information. They could theoretically confer with sources outside of the building, off hours, in a different country etc. I imagine those leaks will be more scrutinized now.
"Access journalism" was the one thing they had over youtubers and bloggers. Good riddance.
OANN is the only ones that signed? Looks like we'll just be seeing crappy social media posts from the Pentagon instead of actual information for now on
Well, this does mean that everyone is free to write whatever they want whenever they want, as there will be no pentagon control of any information they DO get. The US military could find that a bit awkward as time progresses.
I mean this clearly shows their intent to lie more effectively about what the Pentagon is doing. There is no reason for darkness other than to hide things.
Military secrets are useful in battle. WW2 has endless examples of this, and you can read advice about it in The Art of War.
Secrets are terrible for a democracy, though. I guess the USA is done with democracy, so the tension between secrets and transparency is now gone....
I'm not sure my comment here is necesarry to begin with.
I agree with your comment in this context.
Your comment sounds a lot like "I don't have anything to hide" one in the context of mass surveillance.