You will say what we want, when we want, and only if we want. sieg heil
Most journalists get into the profession to be investigative journalists and break open huge stories like Watergate. They don’t get into the field to be secretaries and take dictation, now replacable with AI speech to text.
If they comply to this request, they might as well quit their jobs.
Remember when Obama tried to exclude Fox from the press core and all the others in the press core said if you do we are out. We could use some of that principled reporter solidarity now.
Going forward, journalists must sign a pledge not to gather any information, including unclassified reports, that hasn’t been authorized for release.
Why even bother allowing journalists to come at all when they are just told what to ask/report? It’s like a tv show where the crowd is fed questions to ask the host beforehand.
It’s amazing what passes for journalism these days.
It’s like this in every part of journalism. People just parrot whatever the police chief says, the tech CEO says, and the press release says. It’s getting to the point now where you cannot even get an honest journalistic review of any product, and each major product launch is reported on the national news and sometimes repeated on the local news as if that’s anything but just free marketing for the corporation releasing the product.
We blurred all the lines together to the point where now the media is just a marketing and propaganda arm of whatever they are covering.
First amendment is dying, when second coming to life?
Bro, did you hear about that shitstain podcaster guy?
Go have a conversation with your neighborhood gun nut on why Trump refuses to release the Epstein files
Any time now those 2A guys will spring into action and fight against this tyrannical government that they voted into power and we’ll actually never mind, because they are still the main support for it, showing that 2A is about as worthless as most people know since forever
That’s called censorship
“DoW remains committed to transparency to promote accountability and public trust,” the document said. “However, DoW information must be approved for public release by an appropriate authorizing official before it is released, even if it is unclassified.”
In other related news, the sky is red, grass is purple, water is solid and the universe is only 6000 years old
See, that part is correct. An appropriate authority must provide the classification of a material before it’s released. Everything coming out of the DoD has a release authority attached to it. Every picture of two people shaking hands is ‘released’ by the DoD…
But the whole idea of a pledge before showing up to a press pool is downright silly.
“Well, yes, Queef Hegseth, I didn’t use any outside materials, the coauthors of the piece did though and my editor included it. Nothing I could do.”
Going forward, journalists must sign a pledge not to gather any information, including unclassified reports, that hasn’t been authorized for release.
hahahahaha
Some might say it is an Oath of Allegiance
Finally NPR is showing a little backbone when it directly affects them.
Love me some NPR but they have been sane washing orange mussolini for years.
Yeap… I can barely listen to npr anymore. Their interviewing process is basically just a platform for fascist to make wild claims without any sort of actual pushback. At most at the end of the segment the host will make a mild rebuttal about one aspect of their interview. But most of the time it’s just “well that’s all the time we have”.
There’s no pushback or fact checking, or even giving equal time to an opposing view. They should be hammering every inaccurate claim made by these assholes. If there isn’t enough time in your programming to do so, then you shouldn’t have these liars on your show to begin with.
Journalism is dead, and it’s because the whole field is a walled garden where the only people who can afford to get their foot in the door or take the unpaid internships are nepo babies and trust fund kids, and those people don’t have backbones.
They don’t call it Nice Polite Republicans for nothing.
Yeah, they’re probably the best large American news reporting organization left, but they are far far far from perfect and their biggest problem is they try to normalize and sanitize everything the United States does
Well, they were partially funded by the US government and corporate sponsorships. That introduces some pro-US and pro-corporate bias.
As opposed to the other news sources in the country which are pure pro-corporate bias.
A lot of funding is from the fossil fuel industry (some call it National Petroleum Radio).
I have listened to dozens of stories on climate change, pollution, etc. over the years. I mean look up “NPR fossil fuels” and you’ll see pages upon pages of critical, factual reporting. I’m not sure they’re beholden to the fossil fuel industry - have any more info?
Sure they cover climate change, just like other commercial outlets – but the coverage is extremely milquetoast (“stressed about climate change? Write a letter to the Earth!”). That is what their sponsorship dollars are buying.
And in matters of foreign policy especially, public broadcasting has been extremely supportive of military mis-adventures in oil-rich countries. NPR lost a lot of support among totebaggers over their Iraq war coverage.
It’s not the understood perspective. Its the descriptions. Their subtext is always “it’s fine, let them [insert horror action here]”
So they’ll say “Critics say climate nearing point-of-no-return”.
I actually remember the first time I ever heard the news refer to “an environmentalist”. Like - . . . We all live in the environment, so why single out people for . . why are they singling them out?
NPR is highly critical of [insert atrocity here]. I doubt you can find an example where they’re not.
That’s just how headlines work. “Experts say X,” “Politician says Y” – that’s inoffensive.
Environmentalist is a well-understood term with meaning. There are people who are not environmentalists. Yeah it is ridiculous that anyone isn’t
Everyone was an environmentalist until they coined the term.
They could have coined something to mean anti-environment before that but they didn’t. I wonder why.
(Not that NPR coined it. That’s too bold for them)
And Geedubz for 8 more. And Bush the 1. And Ronnie Raygun.
Shit, they got so thouroughly pwned after 9/11, I noped out then.
I mean, it’s all you get in a small town, but it hasn’t been really left in forever and a day.
Treason is so boring now
Collect the information, pass the information to a colleague who doesn’t have Pentagon press credentials, profit.
You will say what we want, when we want, and only if we want. sieg heil
I’m going to choose to take this out of context.
😁 I like it
