Pentagon removes major media outlets, including NBC News, from dedicated workstations as part of a new 'rotation program'
Pentagon removes major media outlets, including NBC News, from dedicated workstations as part of a new 'rotation program'
NBC News, The New York Times, NPR and Politico must vacate their office spaces in two weeks for other news organizations — including at least one that did not request to be added.
Summary
The Pentagon announced a new annual media rotation program, removing established outlets like NBC News, The New York Times, NPR, and Politico from dedicated workspaces.
The memo orders these organizations to vacate their offices in two weeks, while replacing them with outlets such as OANN, New York Post, Breitbart, and HuffPost.
NBC News expressed disappointment over losing long-held technical capabilities essential for timely reporting.
The move follows Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s narrow confirmation and signals a broader effort to reshape Pentagon media access, transforming U.S. government communications permanently.
The new outlets rotating in are One America News Network — which will take NBC News’s spot — the New York Post, Breitbart News Network and HuffPost.
This is obviously 100% political. And the way of the new administration. They are excluding any opposition however moderate, everywhere they can, and then replace them with political supporters.
Welcome to the new authoritarian antidemocratic America!
I know you didn’t highlight it but HuffPost is just as bad as the others nowadays…maybe even worse because it tries to hide behind supposed “balanced” coverage
OK I didn't know they'd become that bad.
This is a very basic authoritarianism playbook. I've watched my home country fall in a similar fashion. Just be mentally ready.
We are legion. Argentina is going the same route.
Why the fuck are we letting them do this‽
Apathy...
the US really needs to take a page from France
Also, half the population that voted wants this to happen. They are on board because they watch and listen to those propaganda outlets and think the mainstream news isn't telling the truth*. They want their propaganda.
*mainstream news does omit a lot of stuff and absolutely has an agenda to further their capitalist objectives by promoting stuff that gets reactions and trying to both sides everything. But they still try to make sure what they do report is accurate.
Because people are still telling us this is better than violence. We also don't have organization. "Lone wolf" attacks will not work and just justify further erosion. We need a pack but no one knows how to form one.
So what does 21st century resistance look like? It seems that the bystander effect Germany experienced 100 years ago is happening in the USA now. What would have prevented the rise of the Third Reich? Protests are ineffectual, and I have no idea how to organize or resist - I’m just trying to stay informed in a horrified and helpless kind of way, which accomplishes nothing more than my passive complicity.
Do we need a modern Black Panthers movement? If a brilliant and charismatic leader like Malcolm X were to come forward and lead us, would we be inadvertently accelerating the inevitable martial law or creating the excuse for Civil War II Red vs Blue? Is it even feasible to envision an effective plan from a demographic that prefers pacifism?
It’s not really a “we are letting them do this” situation. It’s more of a “he’s essentially captured and removed any and all options we have to stop him from doing it.”
The “we are letting him do this” argument was valid prior to the election when everyone tried warning the non-voters/protest voters how it would go. Let’s refer to this as the “fuck around phase.”
And we are now here with him doing it- because they refused to listen. We’ll call this the “find out phase.”
Glad to see those
legal settlementsbribes are paying off. /sMaybe if I just bend the knee harder daddy will stop beating me. Maybe just once more.
Almost like for profit "news" is antithetical to journalism.
Let me guess: they're going to "rotate" in actual propaganda like NewsMax and OAN...
This rotation appears to be OAN, New York Post, Breitart, and Huff Post. So, three conservative organizations plus Huff Post.
Huff Post is an organization that has no credibility on the right and no experience covering the Pentagon. They're removing the outlets that might actually be able to make a difference while still giving themselves the cover of "Well, we added Huff Post!"
I'm waiting to see them start banning NBC, ABC, etc from Whitehouse press events.
huffpost is currently owned by buzzfeed. buzzfeed, afaik, has not kissed the diaper (yet). buzzfeed shuttered their news division, which was actually 'ok' (and different than the click-chasing junk on buzzfeed itself), after they acquired huffpost. huffpost is their news site now. the wildcard here is that comcast is a major shareholder (around one-third, iirc) of buzzfeed.
huffpost's inclusion could go either way:
they (comcast) flex their muscles and 'encourage' buzzfeed to keep their left-leaning site quiet and 'under control'
they take offense at nbc getting kicked out and use nbc and nbcnews (which are not included in the planned spin-off of cable properties that includes cnbc and msnbc) to help huffpost report the real news and get it on the air.
And HuffPost.
Can't wait for Saturday Morning Propaganda! /s
Replaced with Pravda and the Wochenschau.
"Rotation program"? More like "sit on this and rotate"
Not a great move, but maybe a spark might go off in some of these orgs and they will stop worrying about putting facts behind "access" to these assholes.
They're gonna fold and fo whatever they have to to please the fascists.
My take is that we have entered the apex of the MAGA phase.
Now that the incompetents have achieved power, they will start to destroy themselves through stupidity.
Don't get me wrong, a lot of damage will be visited upon the heads of the innocent. But it is going to take this destruction to demonstrate just what a terrible idea it was to install these dickheads in the first place.
After all, the voters were warned, and also got a taste of chaos in the first series. They still voted him in.
Ok, let Trump set the electorate's hair on fire and see what happens next.
Apathy. Apathy is what happens next.
"I have bills to pay, I'm not taking time off to protest"
"I'm not the one being deported, sure, I feel bad but it's not like one voice will make a difference"
Etc...
"they're just being deported not murdered it's not that bad"
Not sure why they're highlighting NBC News, they're the one I'm most okay losing.
I think in this case it may be because this particular post was from NBC news, I imagine the other outlets will focus on themselves as well.
This is terrible no matter how you look at it, but the current group occupying those offices are not particularly looked at as non biased non politically motivated agencies either.
They are better than what's moving in, but they lost their way a while ago IMHO.
Since they cater to their shareholders instead of the unbiased truth, they won't get universal or even the majority of public support.