In a push to diversify media representation and expand access beyond traditional outlets, the Pentagon has introduced a new “annual media rotation program.” This initiative reassigns office space within the Correspondents’ Corridor, replacing long-held workspaces of The New York Times, NBC News, National Public Radio, and Politico with One America News Network, the New York Post, Breitbart News Network, and HuffPost.
Set to take effect on February 14, the decision aims to ensure a broader range of perspectives in defense reporting while shaking up the long-standing press landscape at the Pentagon.
NBC has more:
“In order to broaden access to the limited space of the Correspondents’ Corridor to outlets that have not previously enjoyed the privilege and journalist value of working from physical office space in the Pentagon, beginning February 14, 2025,” Ullyot wrote, there will be “a new Annual Media Rotation Program for those dedicated media spaces.”
Naturally, the mainstream media is displeased.
In a statement, NBC News said, “We’re disappointed by the decision to deny us access to a broadcasting booth at the Pentagon that we’ve used for many decades. Despite the significant obstacles this presents to our ability to gather and report news in the national public interest, we will continue to report with the same integrity and rigor NBC News always has.”
Rather than seeing this as an opportunity to diversify coverage and amplify smaller voices, the press is once again complaining about its treatment. Instead of acknowledging the public’s declining trust, they’re clinging to their exclusive, legacy-driven “members-only” club.
As the article continued, NPR continued to push its self-made narrative of victimhood:
“This decision interferes with the ability of millions of Americans to directly hear from Pentagon leadership, and with NPR’s public interest mission to serve Americans who turn to our network of local public media stations in all 50 states,” NPR said in a statement. “NPR will continue to report with vigor and integrity on the transformation this Administration has promised to deliver. NPR urges the Pentagon to expand the offices available to press within the building so that all outlets covering the Pentagon receive equal access.”
While three of the four outlets lean right, the left-leaning HuffPost neither requested a Pentagon office nor has a dedicated reporter at the building but stated it was up to the challenge.
“If the Trump administration and Secretary Hegseth are interested in more hard-hitting coverage of their stewardship of the Defense Department from HuffPost, we are ready to deliver,” Grams said.
It’s long overdue for the media to take accountability for its reporting and its cozy relationship with past administrations (Biden’s decline, anyone?).
Maybe this will shake things up and force some reflection—but who am I kidding?
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Now take away the White House Correspondents’ Association’s control over seating in the White House press room.
I do SO hope that is coming . . . .
And the response of a huge number of normies on hearing this news was, ‘why the hell are there press offices in the Pentagon’.
That was my first thought.
loose lips sink ships.
And the drive-by media is all about “sinking our ships” on purpose.
“Maybe this will shake things up and force some reflection—but who am I kidding?”
It’s already shaking things up, but the only reflection will be the one in the mirror:
They will be like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and “after looking at themselves, will go away and immediately forget what they look like.”
(James 1:24)
“This decision interferes with the ability of millions of Americans to directly hear from Pentagon leadership…”
These people think they’re indispensable. They are not. And since when did NPR (or any other media outlet) allow American to “directly hear from Pentagon leadership”? Everything comes to the public through a media filter. Trump is doing nothing but changing the filters around, he’s not silencing anyone.
NBC News whined, “… we will continue to report with the same integrity and rigor NBC News always has.” WHAT self awareness?
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Wait… Republicans want to diversify coverage and Democrats say it’s an awful idea?
would you my effrontery for suggesting two word changes:
conservatives for Republicans and Marxists for Democrats
I don’t know what happened to the word “forgive” that was supposed to show up between “you” and “my”
Well, of course.
Redistribution of wealth is a core Marxist idea, up until the time that they have cornered the overwhelming bulk of it, then it becomes treason,
will they give a seat to “Russia Today”
it’s probably further right than NPR
They should have played this cannier, like Pelosi did with the J6 committee.
Give the “opposition seat” to leftist journalists with zero credibility.
The office should have gone to Worker’s World Daily.
Failing that, Weekly World News.
Why do you not like Al Jazeera and Russia Today?
Didn’t want to introduce an international issue to complicate the message.
Plus, Russia Today really no longer qualifies for the “left wing” reserved chair.
That’s the job of HuffPost, I think.
They can still write the same anonymous-sourced garbage they’ve always written, they just don’t get to claim credibility for being there.
The old certainties enjoyed by the legacy media have become far less certain; they are ‘old news’.
They deserve all of this and more, for becoming spear carriers for the Marxist party.
Scratch spear carriers — I should have said camp followers.
camp followers – MUCH more accurate term for the presstitutes.
integrity and rigor
vigor and integrity
DNC email blast at work. lol
Well if NBC and NPR are going to continue to report with the same “Integrity” they have shown then they don’t need an office. How much room do you need to sit around and make stuff up?
Can’t they make stuff up working from home?
NPR says, “This decision interferes with the ability of millions of Americans to directly hear from Pentagon leadership…” NPR still has millions of listeners?
No, it doesn’t. It just means they’ll do it through someone else.
Joy Reid and the word “elite” should never be in the same sentence.
I was rather surprised to see that racist’s face in a story of “elite media”. Might as well have put up Don Lemon or Acosta.
It was a typo for “blight.”
“As the article continued, NPR continued to push its self-made narrative of victimhood:
“’This decision interferes with the ability of millions of Americans to directly hear from Pentagon leadership, and with NPR’s public interest mission to serve Americans who turn to our network of local public media stations in all 50 states,’ NPR said in a statement. ‘NPR will continue to report with vigor and integrity on the transformation this Administration has promised to deliver. NPR urges the Pentagon to expand the offices available to press within the building so that all outlets covering the Pentagon receive equal access.’”
1. Weird how NPR never crowed about “””equal access””” until now.
2. I’m a conservative Christian who listened to NPR quite a bit from 1987~2016, I appreciated their in-depth reportage, so I just filtered for the slant. (I also enjoyed Prairie Home Companion, Car Talk, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, etc.) But when DJT got elected, they all just lost they damn minds. Peter Boghossian did a brief (5 episodes) called “All Things Reconsidered” on his YT channel about 2-1/2 years ago. If you once enjoyed NPR but turned it off in the Trump/Biden era, I highly recommend it. Boghossian hears from SO MANY moderates and liberals who abandoned NPR, as well.
The series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYNjnJFU-62s5cNuqeB-D-7QPymF6myk_&si=w4FRgcjlc1YwksXb
How about “All Things Considered, But Some Considered More Than Others”
Between this announcement and last weeks press conference specifically giving Breitbart (among others) White House Credentials, it’s gratifying to remember back to Andrew Breitbart hijacking Anthony Weiner”s 2011 press conference and how he turned the world on it’s head. If he were here to see what has been wrought from that one moment in time, I think even he never imagined Trump 2.0.
Trump’s Press Office is making changes for the better. Trump and Vance showed during the campaign that using alternate media was much more valuable then MSM or Fox, and they are continuing the use. MSM and Fox are dying and the alternate media is growing massively.