The U.S. Defense Department will remove media offices from the Pentagon after a federal judge sided with The New York Times in a lawsuit challenging limits on reporters’ access to the building, a department official announced Monday.
An area of the Pentagon known as “Correspondents’ Corridor” that reporters have used for decades to cover the U.S. military will close immediately, department spokesperson Sean Parnell said. Journalists will eventually be able to work from an “annex” outside the building, which he said “will be available when ready.” He offered no detail about how long that will take.
The Pentagon Press Association said the announcement “is a clear violation of the letter and spirit of last week’s ruling.”
Maybe the actual problem is that journalists are co-workers and buddies with the people they’re supposed to be monitoring. “Embedded journalism”. The military can do whatever they want because the capitalist media is completely subservient.
That unquestioning imperial slop is literally how we got here.
My understanding is that there’s long been an unspoken agreement that the government lets the media play indoors so long as they play by the government’s rules. Without that access they can report the news more - let’s say “honestly” - but they can get inside access anymore. It’s a catch 22 that everybody’s taken for granted for a long time now.
Yeah, nothing suspicious about shutting down access for journalists.
Damn journalists keeping politicians accountable, how dare they! Don’t they know these politicians have thin skin and weak feelings, they need to stop bullying them.
It was reported that the NYT (and WaPo) received intel on Trumps planned kidnapping of Maduro 24 hours before it happened and they did absolutely nothing with that information. Journalists are supposed to hold the government accountable but unfortunately none of these corporate-owned outlets employ any journalists.
News outlets and journalists also have a duty to not endanger people. By releasing details of capturing Maduro before the operation, it could have put US service members in danger. Not only that, but it’s possible they didn’t trust the source.
It’s exactly the same reasoning the original signal chat leak wasn’t reported until after the strikes discussed in the chat had happened.
This continues to be such a weird argument to me. They have a duty not to endanger people, but somehow sitting on the knowledge that a whole bunch of people are going to die without warning them isn’t harming them?
They sit on that knowledge because the government has demonstrated repeatedly that it will punish them for leaking attacks, not for some humanitarian reason.
It is absolutely a weird argument
Journalists report on what has happened and what is currently happening. They don’t know if their info on what is going to happen is accurate. If they report the information and nothing happens, they lose credibility. If they report the information and people die as a result (or at least more than would have died without reporting), they would be charged with leaking Intel and likely held responsible, at least partially, for those deaths.
It is a no-win scenario to report on things like this before it happens. And that’s really uncomfortable - real human lives could be saved, and there is a mechanism for disseminating information to get the word out and make a difference. But it’s also impossible to know the accuracy of the information, it’s impossible to know if it’s deliberately misleading, it’s impossible to know the true goals of releasing such information to a news organization before the events unfold - for all we know, this was a test by the administration, and if they failed the entire company could be shuttered.
It’s easy to get frustrated with news outlets based on what they do and don’t report, but there is usually logic behind their reasoning.
How would reporters be charged with leaking intel? They’re not government employees with security clearances. The people leaking the Intel are the people working for the government. Furthermore “nothing happening” is the ideal outcome and wouldn’t make the reporting less credible as the facts haven’t changed one bit.
The trick is that foreigners don’t count as people.
Frustratingly plausible explanation.
Yeah I find this persons argument to be quite troubling. Reporters shouldn’t report on illegal acts by the government because it could put the people committing the crimes in danger? What couldn’t you justify with logic like this?
I’m talking about reporting on tips for events that might happen, not those that have happened. I laid out the reasons in a different comment, but the important distinction is not reporting on tips for possible future events
It’s a shame we have to fight for our LEGAL RIGHTS in court while trump fights in court to have them removed.
Any ruling from anywhere by any judge is automatically ignored by these fascist thugs. Either the constitution needs to close a loophole so this never happens again or maybe nobody who can do anything about it cares. The future will answer that question (if any of us are still alive after the global thermonuclear war).
It’s not a loophole if it’s something against the law that they just ignore.
Their checks and balances were the senate and supreme court. They lost all three at the same time to a party hellbent on going Vader.
Not mine
From the most transparent presidency ever. That’s what we’ve been told
It’s almost as if it’s the complete opposite
Shocking.
Straight from the dick_tator playbook
And people wonder “how did nazi germany even happen?”
This, this is how.
These are people who would have been intolerably immature even in grade school. Insufferable selfish whiny infants who refuse to do anything that isn’t the single thing they want most, and will break everything if they don’t get it.
It’s like the middle school bullies have taken over the school, and the principal is the head bully’s father, who taught him everything he knows and fully approves, and the teachers won’t do anything to help, and even make excuses for the principal and the bullies.
Also I’m pretty sure kegshit was an alcoholic since he was a wee fetus.
And clearly they weren’t beaten enough out of it
“Journalists will eventually be able to work from an “annex” outside the building, which he said “will be available when ready.” He offered no detail about how long that will take.”
$100 says they put up a tent and make reporters work there
I was thinking a single construction trailer.
Trump is such a fucking toddler.
Im fully convinced now this orange ahole is nothing short of hitler2
Stupid Hitler, though. Or Even Stupider™ Hitler. heh
