"Frontlines (run by Turning Point USA), My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell's streaming service, Human Events, the Post Millennial, Gateway Pundit, The National Pulse and others are among the outlets that agreed to new restrictions the Defense Department implemented to permit access to the building. More traditional outlets like Axios, AP, The Washington Post, Fox News and more declined to comply, and their defense reporters handed in their press passes to the Pentagon and staged a walkout on Oct. 15 the protest the new rules. The restrictions included asking reporters who wished to be inside the Pentagon not to gather information that hasn't been approved for release, which journalists said would make it challenging to cover their beat independently."
""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," Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement. Parnell praised the new media outlets as having "created the formula to circumvent the lies of the mainstream media and get real news directly to the American people." The new reporters will join 26 journalists across 18 different outlets who originally had access and chose to comply with the Pentagon's new rules."
The Defense Department implemented new media-access rules requiring reporters inside the Pentagon not to gather information that has not been approved for release. Multiple right-leaning and independent outlets agreed to the restrictions and were granted access. Major mainstream outlets such as Axios, AP, The Washington Post, and Fox News declined to comply, surrendered press passes, and staged a walkout on Oct. 15. Pentagon officials touted over 60 journalists signing the policy and joining a new press corps. Press freedom groups criticized the rules as appearing designed to stifle a free press and risking prosecution for routine reporting.
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