"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."
"agreeing to the new rules was a decision to abdicate our responsibility as journalists in favor of merely repeating state narratives."
"Having been subject to repeated attacks by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over the past two decades, The Epoch Times is no stranger to attempts to suppress freedom of the press; the Pentagon's new media access policy is no such attack."
Andrew Thornebrooke resigned his national security correspondent post at The Epoch Times after the outlet agreed to the Pentagon's new press restrictions. He stated that accepting the rules would abdicate journalists' responsibility and lead to repeating state narratives. He accused the outlet of promoting partisan materials, publishing demonstrably false information, and manipulating ground reporting, and criticized its characterization of Antifa as a terrorist organization. The Epoch Times updated his biography to past tense. Editor-in-chief Jasper Fakkert defended the policy as not equivalent to CCP suppression. Major broadcast networks issued a joint rebuke of the Pentagon's updated credentialing rules.
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