Pentagon Announces ‘Next Generation’ Press Corps That Includes Gateway Pundit and LindellTV
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Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell introduced the “next generation of the Pentagon press corps” on Wednesday, referencing those media outlets that have accepted the Pentagon’s new controversial press policy.
“Today, the Department of War is announcing the next generation of the Pentagon press corps,” Parnell announced. “We are excited to announce over 60 journalists, representing a broad spectrum of new media outlets and independent journalists, have signed the Pentagon’s media access policy and will be joining the new Pentagon press corps. Twenty-six journalists across 18 outlets were among the former Pentagon press corps who chose to sign the DOW media access policy.”
The new agreement limits reporting freedom for journalists, barring them from releasing information the Pentagon has not approved. The new rule has received bipartisan backlash. Fox News and other major outlets rejected the pledge, leading to the credentials of numerous reporters being pulled.
“New media outlets and independent journalists have created the formula to circumvent the lies of the mainstream media and get real news directly to the American people,” Parnell wrote on Wednesday. “Their reach and impact collectively are far more effective and balanced than the self-righteous media who chose to self-deport from the Pentagon. Americans have largely abandoned digesting their news through the lens of activists who masquerade as journalists in the mainstream media. We look forward to beginning a fresh relationship with members of the new Pentagon press corps.”
As CNN’s Natasha Bertrand, who covers the Pentagon, pointed out, the “spectrum” of outlets that agreed to the new policy are mainly MAGA friendly outlets like LindellTV, Turning Point USA, Real America’s Voice, and others.
“This post doesn’t name them for some reason, but the ‘broad spectrum of new media outlets’ include: Gateway Pundit, TPUSA, and LindellTV, per their announcements,” she wrote.
President Donald Trump himself expressed skepticism over the Pentagon’s new press policy, but later threw his support behind the move.
“I’ll let [Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth] speak for himself, but I think he finds the press to be very disruptive in terms of world peace and maybe security for our nation,” he told reporters at the White House. “Press is very dishonest, not you, but the press is very dishonest.”
