Pentagon Crafts New Press Corps After Old One Started Asking Questions
According to RT, the Pentagon's shiny new press pool will feature outlets like Axios, Politico, and Bloomberg. Conveniently, these outlets are known less for hard-hitting investigations into defense spending and more for echoing national security talking points. (Remember when the mainstream press, en masse, simply affirmed the intelligence community’s WMD claims in Iraq? Good times.) This move
appears to be less about fostering free press and more about curating a 'friendly' echo chamber, ensuring that challenging questions about, say, the $886 billion defense budget or the actual effectiveness of endless wars, remain politely unasked. We can expect fewer uncomfortable inquiries about civilian casualties from U.S.-supplied weaponry (as seen in Gaza) or the lack of accountability for
decades of failed military interventions. This isn't a new press corps; it's a carefully selected choir, ensuring the official narrative remains perfectly harmonized. The idea that this makes for a more informed public is, charitably, quite optimistic.