DOD does briefings and press conferences no different from what the office of the president does.
Kwitcherbitchin.
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This (in my opinion) has zero to do with leaks. If people think leaks occur in probably the most surveilled building in the world, where every movement and action is tracked and recorded, they’re wrong. Leaks occur in places where both parties feel somewhat protected, which is not in a media office in the Pentagon.
This has everything to do with the DoD wanting to control what non-protected/non-classifed information journalists can and cannot publish. It’s censorship.
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Agreed.
I hear ya, bro! Don’t you wish Biden or Obama would’ve done this sooner?
Absolutely yes, I do.
So you don’t understand the size and geographic differences between the pentagon and the White House.
Got it.
Hint - the Pentagon was the largest office building in the world until recently.
No one is sharing top secret national security items in the common areas where the reporters sit.
If they are…that is a bigger national security concern than anything the reporters themselves are leaking.
Usually when a lib starts a reply with “So …”, the rest of the sentence is a fabrication, and it makes them look foolish and dishonest.
Damn, you’re especially good at that.
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You don’t know that.
And it doesn’t have to be “top secret” stuff to be a problem.
This is the sort of response that makes you being “the smartest man in the room” a running joke.
Absolutely that’s the biggest concern. It’s why I said this in the original post:
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Still doesn’t have a thing to do with “free press”. They could do their job just as “well” without that perk. I cannot believe (actually yes I can) that you are making such a mountain over this. I would venture that more legit investigations have been done, more legit nefarious deeds have been brought to light by independent journalists who do not have a desk in the press room at the Pentagon. ALL of this “poutrage” is because someone in the Trump administration did something that you find “dastardly”.
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Ummm how?
Can these same journalists not write the same stories, speak with the same individuals without a desk in the Pentagon?
ALL that office space and equipment was in reality was a perk amd made them lazy. They can still attend Pentagon briefings, meet with the same sources, write the same stories. All kicking them out of the Pentagon achieved was freeing up office space.
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Ok and??
They will still attend Pentagon briefings correct?
They can still meet with their sources, correct?
They can still write their articles, correct?
What does the size of the building have to do with anything I just mentioned?
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Yes, I think making journalists sign a pledge that they will only report on what the DoD tells them is dastardly.
Why make it harder for the free press to report to the American people what the DoD is doing?
The size and nature of the building makes the office important. I would imagine reporters can’t log into any wifi that the pentagon might have for security reasons. And without wifi, will their phones work in the middle of that massive building?
But hey, rah, rah, Pete doesn’t want the press telling america what he’s up to…he likes to do push ups so this is A-OK…
If they want the perk of having an office in the Pentagon. (Which they shouldn’t have in the first place.)
The ones lurking in the parking lots and bars and airports don’t have to sign anything.
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Trump gives these lonely people a purpose on the internet.
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I happened to notice you clipped the other part of my post…not surprised at all.
Did EVERY journalist in the business sign said pledge?
To me, this is another over reaction to a problem. To me leaks are not “part of doing business”, it illustrates an overall lack of discipline. So called “authorized” leaks are just another example of someone who doesn’t have the balls to put their ass on the line. And as I said previously, you only really give a damn because of Trump. If a democrat had done this, you would have done your damndest to justify it.
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So in otherwords it is an inconvenience. I wonder how reporters did their job there before wifi and internet??
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Everyone walked out except:
By Thursday, it became clear who was left in the halls of the Pentagon. An internal government document, first obtained by The Washington Post, revealed that only 15 people out of hundreds of credentialed reporters had signed the new press pledge.
Of those signatories, two are from the pro-Trump cable channel, One America News; one is from right-wing website The Federalist; and another is from ultra-conservative newspaper The Epoch Times.
The remaining 11 reporters include freelancers for foreign-based organizations and a couple of little-known independent sites that appear to publish their work solely on social media.
So we no longer have objective journalists covering what the DoD does.
And now an Epoch times journalist resigns over this
His letter also contained the following passage: “I can no longer reconcile my role with the direction the paper has chosen, including its increasing willingness to promote partisan materials, publish demonstrably false information, & manipulate the reporting of its ground staff to shape the worldview of our readers.”
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