{"id":22516,"date":"2025-10-23T10:37:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=22516"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:37:59","slug":"pentagons-new-press-corps-is-the-stuff-of-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=22516","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon\u2019s new press corps is the stuff of nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>The Trump administration<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2025\/10\/22\/pentagon-press-corps-right-wing-media\/\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\"><span> <\/span>announced<\/a><span> Wednesday {that a} group of far-right media retailers have been given press entry to the Pentagon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The announcement comes per week after <\/span><em>precise<\/em><span> journalists <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/10\/16\/2348899\/-White-House-spews-pathetic-lie-about-Pentagon-media-walkout\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">staged a walkout<\/a><span> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pentagon-press-access-hegseth-trump-restrictions-5d9c2a63e4e03b91fc1546bb09ffbf12\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">refused to sign on<\/a><span> to new guidelines that require all reporting to be pre-approved by Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth. Even Fox Information <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/10\/14\/2348547\/-Even-Fox-News-says-hell-no-to-Hegseth-s-ridiculous-demands\" target=\"_blank\">stood against<\/a><span> the brand new guidelines.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"image-captioned width-xl align-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025 in Quantico, Va.  (Andrew Harnik\/Pool via AP)\" class=\"width-xl\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.prod.dailykos.com\/images\/1483364\/large\/AP25273469882205.jpg?1759239675\" title=\"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025 in Quantico, Va.  (Andrew Harnik\/Pool via AP)\"\/><figcaption>Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cNew media retailers and impartial journalists have created the system to bypass the lies of the mainstream media and get actual information on to the American individuals,\u201d Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SeanParnellASW\/status\/1981048206923329719\" target=\"_blank\"><span> <\/span>wrote on X<\/a><span>. \u201cTheir attain and affect collectively are far simpler and balanced than the self-righteous media who selected to self-deport from the Pentagon.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Among the many Pentagon\u2019s new pool of retailers is Timcast, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/4\/22\/2318083\/-Trump-White-House-welcomes-bigoted-podcaster-to-push-immigration-lies\" target=\"_blank\">conspiratorial racist<\/a><span> Tim Pool\u2019s podcast, on which he has claimed that \u201cmulticulturalism\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/tim-pool\/tim-pool-calls-allen-texas-shooters-pro-nazi-online-footprint-psyop-and-blames-mass\" target=\"_blank\">is behind<\/a><span> mass shootings and<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/tim-pool\/youtube-tim-pool-suggests-high-values-dudes-should-shame-women-based-their-number-sexual\" target=\"_blank\"><span> <\/span><\/a><span>that ladies <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/tim-pool\/youtube-tim-pool-suggests-high-values-dudes-should-shame-women-based-their-number-sexual\" target=\"_blank\">should face<\/a><span> public disgrace for what number of sexual companions they\u2019ve had.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pool has been given Pentagon entry regardless that\u2014or maybe as a result of\u2014he was amongst a gaggle of right-wing influencers paid by the Russian authorities to unfold disinformation. He <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/opinion\/msnbc-opinion\/russia-maga-influencers-pool-rubin-johnson-indictment-rcna169733\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">received payments<\/a><span> from the Russian Tenet Media to make politically divisive movies to weaken the U.S. authorities and its opposition to Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Russia seemingly had no concept that, with Donald Trump changing into president, one in all its<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/well-known-right-wing-influencers-duped-to-work-for-covert-russian-operation-u-s-prosecutors-say\" target=\"_blank\"><span> <\/span>paid stooges<\/a><span> could be given a front-row seat to the inside workings of the U.S. army.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Equally, MyPillow founder and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/9\/30\/2346192\/-The-MyPillow-guy-can-t-stop-losing\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">election conspiracy theorist<\/a><span> Mike Lindell\u2019s outlet, LindellTV, will now regurgitate Hegseth\u2019s nonsense to the general public. Lindell was among the many Trump sycophants who&#8217;ve falsely insisted that Trump gained the 2020 election.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"image-captioned width-xl align-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mike Lindell, also known as the My Pillow Guy, listens to Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, as he speaks at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 27, 2024, in St. Cloud, Minn. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)\" class=\"width-xl\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.prod.dailykos.com\/images\/1483423\/large\/AP24210094977568.jpg?1759251517\" title=\"Mike Lindell, also known as the My Pillow Guy, listens to Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, as he speaks at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 27, 2024, in St. Cloud, Minn. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)\"\/><figcaption>MyPillow founder and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Gateway Pundit, the conservative weblog based and operated by Jim Hoft, additionally obtained Pentagon credentials. Hoft, as soon as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/gateway-pundit\/jim-hoft-dumbest-man-internet\" target=\"_blank\">described by<\/a><span> the media watchdog group Media Issues for America because the \u201cdumbest man on the web,\u201d has spent a long time selling debunked right-wing conspiracy theories and different falsehoods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Extra lately, Gateway Pundit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/10\/media\/gateway-pundit-settles-defamation-suit-georgia\" target=\"_blank\"><span> <\/span>paid out a settlement<\/a><span> in a 2024 defamation lawsuit introduced by two Georgia election staff after it falsely accused them of rigging the 2020 election outcomes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pentagon reporting is of dire significance in the intervening time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Trump administration<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/10\/20\/2349495\/-US-accused-of-murder-in-latest-sign-of-faltering-global-ties\" target=\"_blank\"><span> <\/span>is engaged<\/a><span> in warfare in South America, which some specialists say is against the law. In the meantime, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ignored Trump\u2019s halfhearted try to finish Russia\u2019s warfare on Ukraine, which has most lately included<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russia-bomb-kindergarten-kharkiv-ukraine\/\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\"><span> the <\/span>bombing of a kindergarten<\/a><span> with kids current. And within the Center East, Israel\u2019s battle with Hamas<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/10\/22\/nx-s1-5581401\/vance-israel-gaza-ceasefire\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\"><span> <\/span>has continued<\/a><span> regardless of Trump\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/10\/13\/2348411\/-Whiny-Trump-makes-Israel-Hamas-ceasefire-ceremony-all-about-him\" target=\"_blank\">claims<\/a><span> that he secured a \u201cpeace deal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Pentagon\u2019s new right-wing press corps is past ill-equipped to deal with impartial reporting. However relating to producing tales that get Hegseth\u2019s approval, it\u2019ll go with flying colours.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/10\/22\/2349917\/-Pentagon-s-new-press-corps-is-the-stuff-of-nightmares?pm_campaign=blog&#038;pm_medium=rss&#038;pm_source=main\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration announced Wednesday {that a} group of far-right media retailers have been given press entry to the Pentagon.\u00a0 The announcement comes per week after precise journalists staged a walkout and refused to sign on to new guidelines that require all reporting to be pre-approved by Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth. Even Fox Information stood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14026,13132,14731,983,10433],"class_list":["post-22516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-corps","tag-nightmares","tag-pentagons","tag-press","tag-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22517,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22516\/revisions\/22517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}