Media outlets refuse Pentagon press policy; must sign or surrender badges

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00:00Today, a showdown over press access at the Pentagon.

00:06By 5 p.m., news outlets must sign a new restrictive media policy

00:11or hand over their press badges within 24 hours.

00:14The policy requires reporters to acknowledge they won't seek

00:18or solicit any information the Defense Department has not pre-approved

00:22and warns military personnel could face consequences for unauthorized disclosures.

00:27News organizations call that a gag order, saying it violates First Amendment rights

00:32and muzzles reporting on how a nearly trillion-dollar department spends taxpayer money.

00:38Matt Murray, the Washington Post executive editor, said the proposed restrictions

00:42undercut First Amendment protections by placing unnecessary constraints

00:47on gathering and publishing information.

00:50A who's who of news organizations, the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN,

00:54The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Reuters, The Atlantic, The Guardian, all say they won't sign.

00:59So do right-leaning outlets, Newsmax, and The Washington Times.

01:03Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,

01:06has not yet indicated whether they will sign the pledge.

01:10A Pentagon spokesman says reporters are, quote, moving the goalpost,

01:14insisting the policy just requires an acknowledgment, not an agreement,

01:18and reminding journalists that access to the building is a privilege, not a right.

01:22Johnson & The Washington Post.

01:25R 인도

01:26R long

01:28R lynched

01:29R lynched

01:31R

01:44R 15

01:45R

01:47R

01:48R

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