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Epoch Times Reporter Resigns After Publication Signs Pentagon Rules (www.nytimes.com)

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Paywall bypass: https://web.archive.org/web/20251019175231/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/business/media/epoch-times-pentagon-press-rules.html

BoingBoing on Wednesday: Mainstream media quit Pentagon rather than sign pledge

Update: By end of day, a few more signed up; this post originally identified only one, OANN. The new Pentagon press corps appears to be The Federalist, the Epoch Times, OANN, a Turkish newspaper and a blogger from Korea.

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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 days ago

“I can no longer reconcile my role with the direction the paper has chosen, including its increasing willingness to promote partisan materials, publish demonstrably false information, and manipulate the reporting of its ground staff to shape the worldview of our readers,” Mr. Thornebrooke wrote.

coming from a person who made the choice to work for Falun Gong's QAnon newspaper, this is hilarious