{"id":100248,"date":"2025-10-31T02:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/pentagon-proudly-announces-its-new-stable-of-propagandists\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T02:28:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:28:05","slug":"pentagon-proudly-announces-its-new-stable-of-propagandists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/pentagon-proudly-announces-its-new-stable-of-propagandists\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Proudly Announces Its New Stable Of Propagandists"},"content":{"rendered":"

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from the ALL-THE-NEWS-WE’LL-LET-YOU-PRINT<\/i> dept<\/h3>\n

Going ahead, the one factor you\u2019ll hear reported from the Pentagon shall be delivered by subservient, right-wing stenographers. The Struggle Division has its personal Ministry of Fact, staffed by individuals whose organizations have seen their fortunes rise together with Trump\u2019s. The bootlicking was at all times there. The one change is that it\u2019s now formally state-sanctioned. <\/p>\n

The administration doesn\u2019t care how this seems to be. It solely cares that it received what it desires. Not solely did it break with custom by demanding journalists<\/a> comply with play by the administration\u2019s guidelines in the event that they needed entry to the Pentagon and navy officers, it broke with custom by proudly proclaiming its victory over the First Amendment<\/a> on the social media platform most dedicated to stifling criticism of authoritarians: <\/p>\n

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Almost one week since a rash of Pentagon journalists\u00a0turned in their press credentials\u00a0<\/a>after refusing to signal a brand new\u00a0restrictive<\/a>\u00a0press coverage, the Protection Division introduced a \u201cnew media\u201d press corps, largely hailing from right-wing retailers.<\/em><\/p>\n

The 60 individuals from varied information organizations signify, \u201ca broad spectrum of latest media retailers and unbiased journalists,\u201d Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote in a\u00a0statement<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday on X, including that all the publications agreed to the company\u2019s press coverage.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There\u2019s so much to be appalled by\/mock endlessly happening right here. First, there\u2019s the truth that this plan shall be carried out by different federal companies because it labored out completely right here. Second, there\u2019s no \u201cbroad spectrum\u201d right here, except you think about a number of individuals saying the identical issues with the identical pro-Trump deference a scorching new tackle journalistic freedom. <\/p>\n

Then there are the individuals generously being known as \u201cjournalists\u201d by a person talking for an company being concurrently fellated by at the least a few dozen extraordinarily right-wing publications. Nobody would name these individuals \u201cjournalists,\u201d maybe not even these being known as \u201cjournalists\u201d by the DoD spokesman. <\/p>\n

Brace your self. It will get ugly instantly.<\/p>\n

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In line with a draft of the announcement obtained by The Washington Put up forward of Parnell\u2019s tweet, the coalition of signatories consists of the cable community Actual America\u2019s Voice, streaming service Lindell TV (began by MyPillow CEO and Trump ally Mike Lindell), the web sites the Gateway Pundit, the Put up Millennial, Human Occasions, the Nationwide Pulse, and RedState. It additionally consists of Turning Level USA\u2019s media model Frontlines, in addition to influencer Tim Pool\u2019s Timcast, and a Substack-based e-newsletter known as Washington Reporter.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yep, it\u2019s a broad spectrum of conspiracy theorists, bigots, and other people most definitely to be named as a defendant in a legitimate defamation lawsuit<\/a>. (And most definitely to be a plaintiff<\/em> in a bogus<\/em> lawsuit<\/a>.) <\/p>\n

Whereas the Protection Division was proud to announce it had ousted precise journalists from the Pentagon, it was a bit extra cagey when it got here to naming those who determined to stay round. Parnell bragged on X, however precise journalists needed to ask some inquiries to give you a listing of those that swore an oath of fealty to Papa Doc<\/s> Don or regardless of the fuck it’s we\u2019re calling Donald Trump today. <\/p>\n

What\u2019s extra stunning is the list of people who left<\/a>. I\u2019m not speaking in regards to the anticipated ex-pats or those already kicked out by the Pentagon (NPR, New York Instances). I\u2019m speaking about Trump proxies like Newsmax, Fox Information, and the Day by day Caller. These retailers \u2014 regardless of spending most of their time guaranteeing the administration at all times has a bullhorn to borrow \u2014 additionally thought the Pentagon\u2019s calls for have been inappropriate, which left solely the weirdest and worst of the precise wing media in place to do the federal government\u2019s bidding.<\/p>\n

And this demand was even an excessive amount of for one author who labored for a proper wing outlet that has spent the Trump years (which incorporates the Biden years) additional distancing itself from something that could possibly be thought-about credible reporting \u2014 the Epoch Instances \u2014 discovered each the DoD demand and his (now former) employer\u2019s concession too much to stomach<\/a>: <\/p>\n

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A nationwide safety reporter on the right-wing Epoch Instances newspaper has resigned after the publication signed on to\u00a0rules restricting news gathering<\/a>\u00a0throughout the Pentagon.<\/em><\/p>\n

The reporter, Andrew Thornebrooke, submitted his resignation in writing on Friday. Though he didn’t have an energetic Pentagon press move, he frequently coated points associated to the Protection Division and continuously reported from the cavernous navy complicated whereas working on the publication.<\/em><\/p>\n

In his resignation electronic mail, a replica of which was obtained by The New York Instances, Mr. Thornebrooke known as The Epoch Instances\u2019s signing of the pledge a option to \u201cabdicate our duty as journalists in favor of merely repeating state narratives.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Thornebrooke additionally took concern with an editorial directive to discuss with antifa as a \u201cterrorist group\u201d regardless of there being no proof it\u2019s an \u201cgroup\u201d (slightly than an ideological motion), a lot much less concerned in terrorism. <\/p>\n

That is censorship that isn\u2019t even pretending to be one thing else. The general public statements declaring a brand new \u201cpress\u201d corp are only a victory lap by brutish individuals who have the audacity to say they’ve the ethical excessive floor whereas shitting everywhere in the rights their predecessors fought and died for. <\/p>\n

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\tFiled Below: 1st amendment<\/a>, censorship<\/a>, defense department<\/a>, free speech<\/a>, journalism<\/a>, pete hegseth<\/a>, propaganda<\/a>, trump administration<\/a>
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Firms: epoch times<\/a>, federalist<\/a>, gateway pundit<\/a>, human events<\/a>, lindelltv<\/a>, mypillow<\/a>, national pulse<\/a>, oan<\/a>, redstate<\/a>, the post millennial<\/a>, timcast<\/a>, tpusa<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n