A new policy on access at the Pentagon has journalists and the Trump administration at odds

Journalists covering the Pentagon and Trump administration are a posture about the new rules that limit the media’s access to most fields in the Pentagon and seem to be generally entry conditions to the building on an agreement on the restrictions in the report.

While the defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s team describes changes as an effort to protect the security of employees in the Pentagon, while many see many of them as an effort to control it and avoid embarrassing stories.

Journalists who want to hold on to the badge that allowed access to the Pentagon were told that they would sign a letter that accepted new rules on 19 September this Tuesday or that the badge would be “canceled”. The new policy says that the Ministry of Defense should be approved by an appropriate authorized authority before it is released, even if it is not classified, ”. Classified material confronts more strict restrictions.

This level of control immediately worried journalists and defenders.

New York Times spokesman Charles Stadtlander, “asking independent journalists to submit to such restrictions, a free press in a democracy continues to restrict the right to understand what the governments of the people do,” he said.

Dispute about what new rules actually mean

Inside next letter Sean Parnell, Hegseth Assistant to the Committee of Press Freedom Journalists, claimed that journalists misunderstand some of the new rules. For example, he said that the restriction against the publication of unqualified information is the policy that Pentagon officials should follow – not something that journalists should follow.

“It should not be surprising that the mainstream media introduces the Pentagon’s press procedures once again, Par Parnell X said in an article on X.

However, the new policy says that journalists who encourage Pentagon officials to violate rules – in other words, ask for information from sources – may be subject to losing building access.

Although RCFP lawyer Grayson Clary is trying to soften some harsh edges of Parnell’s policy in response to the questions brought up by the committee of journalists, there is enough confusion to deserve a meeting to clean a meeting. If they sign the letter between the news organizations, there is some war on what they will accept, and how many people – if any – if they do it, they are not clear.

New rules continue to have a tense relationship between the Press and the Hegseth team, EVALUATED SOME NEWS ORGANIZATIONS Normal working areas in favor of regular sales points and Limited ability Reporters to wander around the Pentagon. Hegseth and Parnell rarely hold press briefings.

Parnell did not respond to Associated Press’s request for comments.

Everything for an editor is about control

“Control, just 100% control, Jef, the editor -in -chief of Atlantic magazine, said. Goldberg, not deployed in the Pentagon, has written the most embarrassing story of Hegseth’s term of office. incorrectly included Hegseth and other national authorities in a signal group chat in which he discussed an attack close to Houthis in Yemen. Brouhaha is widely known as “signalgate ..

The Pentagon leadership was reported to be satisfied with a story that says that Elon Musk was to get a briefing about the military strategy for China, that President Donald Trump stopped him and to get a briefing about other stories about the first damage assessment against Iran.

Goldberg told Pentagon that no American reporter, whom he knew he was interested in destroying national security or damages any one to the army, was not accredited.

In his own case, Goldberg did not report that they had learned until the attack was over. The authority said that the country contacted the authorities in the group conversation to ask the country if something is harmful. He told his story that he did not include the name of a CIA official mentioned in the technically hidden messages.

“The only person who suffered from American troops in Signalgate was the national leadership of the US by discussing the launch times of strikes in a hostile country on a commercial messaging application,” he said.

Dana Priest, a National Security Reporter for a long time at the Washington Post, said that access to authorities at the Pentagon is invaluable to the Pentagon. Except for several fields, journalists are not allowed to walk in the Pentagon without an official escort under new rules.

The priest said that the Pentagon corridors were like areas where the reporters of the corridors are where buttonhole politicians are located. The priest remembered that he had revealed military officials waiting for them to leave the bathroom.

“They know that the media’s purpose is to overcome the official Gobbledygook and to remove the truth,” Priest said. “They may not help you. But some want Americans to know what’s going on.”

Experienced national security reporters know that there are many ways to get information, including other government channels and people in the private sector. “Pentagon is always well knowledgeable in the advantages of controlling the story, so they always try to do it,” he said. “Correspondents know that. They know this for decades.”

Is there a place for a common ground between the Pentagon and the reporters?

Parnell said to the correspondent committee, reporters who do not comply with new rules would not be deported immediately. However, access will be determined by Hegseth’s team.

Although the journalists already placed in the Pentagon were given to sign until September 30, they were allowed to request five more days for legal investigation.

Although Times, Washington Post and Atlantic make statements against the Pentagon’s plan, none of the publications advise their reporters to do it – perhaps an indication that they see negotiations potentially efficiently.

President Donald Trump did not hesitate to fight the media when he thought he had been injustice. CBS News– ABC News– Wall Street Journal And Times. Still he Frequently accessible To the press, there were more than most of his predecessors and some uncertainties about the Pentagon’s policy in the White House.

“Should Pentagon be responsible for deciding that journalists can report?” When he asks. The President said, “No, I don’t think. Listen, nothing will stop reporters. You know that.”

Goldberg said this is more than a problem for reporters. “The American people have the right to know what they are doing with the names and money of the world’s most powerful army,” he said. “This seems quite clear to me.”

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