Pentagon Welcomes 'Friendly' Press, Skips Critical Questions
According to The Independent, the Pentagon is hosting events, including a meet-and-greet with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, specifically for this curated group. This isn't newfound transparency; it's a carefully orchestrated P.R. move designed to bypass critical scrutiny. Remember when the Pentagon hosted tours to embed journalists during the Iraq War? That produced some incredibly 'friendly'
coverage then, too. (Funny how that works.) One might wonder if this new 'press corps' will focus on the defense budget's ballooning allocations or the OpenSecrets-documented donations from defense contractors to politicians who consistently vote for increased military spending. Perhaps they'll just ask Secretary Hegseth about his favorite war movie. Critical journalism? That's for the
'unfriendly' press corps, apparently.