Pentagon's 'Transparency' Policy Requires Press to Sign NDAs?
Major news outlets are refusing to sign the Pentagon’s revised press access policy, with concerns over language that would grant the military vague control over reporting. The Hill notes this policy promises 'transparency,' yet demands agreement to 'procedures related to classified information' without detailing said procedures. This isn't newfound scruples; these are the same outlets that often
amplify Pentagon narratives without a second thought. Remember, it was this same press corps that swallowed Saddam's WMDs and cheered on the 'shock and awe' campaigns. Their sudden concern for 'press freedom' only materializes when their own access is threatened, not when the truth is obscured for the public. Perhaps if journalistic integrity were valued as much as access to the next F-35
photo-op, these outlets would have raised these concerns *before* the body counts started piling up in Gaza, or before decades of U.S. interventions in the Middle East were whitewashed as 'spreading democracy.' It simply appears that undisclosed restrictions on reporting only become problematic when they might inconvenience the embedded reporters, not when they enable the next war.